Beyond Possession Quotes

“It's easy to forget that promises can mean something.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“I don't have to be gentle. But maybe I want to be.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“That makes you a good man. And I'm not afraid to need a man who doesn't want me to be less than I can be.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“Okay is when your coffee's cold but you can drink it anyway. Okay isn't when a man is fucking you, sweetheart.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“So where'd it go wrong—in bed, or after?" After. Definitely after.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“The truth sounded sad, needy, but she knew better than to lie. "Feeling like I'm the center of someone's world.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“lover who brushed aside your need for independence was never worth it.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“What do you need?”
A thousand things, but nothing as much or as hard as this. “Someone who gets me. Who doesn’t want me to be anything or anyone else. What do I want?” He drew her closer. “I want it to be you.”
“I want it to be me, too.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“If she liked stuff, she'd still be in Gia's bed." "An excellent point." "But she's not." Dallas smoothed his thumb over Lex's jaw, slow and soft. "That's the key to the whole thing, isn't it? They don't run because of what you're giving them. They run because of all the things you're not.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“One answer, one word that covered it all, and it echoed between them. "Mine.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“The best promise, the only one that mattered—that she could live without him, sure, but why the fuck would she want to?”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“I've been naked in your bed, and it's taken you this long to touch me. Maybe you don't want me." "No if there.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“Show me how you'll love me if I stay here with you." "If?”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“Her being in his bed was a promise and a question, all rolled into one. All he had to do was say yes and take it.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“I wouldn't change you, sweetheart. Not a single goddamn thing.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“Because you might need me...but you don't want to.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“You're too good of a man to be loyal to a bad one.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“When I'm in this bed, I'm yours." "And out of it?" "You're mine." "I can live with that.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“It was a survival instinct ingrained too deeply to dig out. Make yourself smaller than the people who held power over you. Duck your head. Try to please them.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“Each other. She wasn't one of them. She was the opposite of one of them. It had always felt that way, at least. Like the gulf was so wide she could never cross it. Like she'd plunge to her death if she tried. Maybe all she had to do was reach out.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“Do you even know?" He brushed the back of his hand across her cheek and eased his thumb into her mouth. "How much you can take?”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“Tell me you like this," she whispered. Begged. "Tell me you like doing dirty things to me." "I love it.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“God, I'm obsessed with your hands. I want them on me all the time. All over me. In me.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“He wouldn't reach for her. He couldn't, because this had to happen. It had to be her choice.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“If he was too gentle, too careful, then she could barely trust herself not to destroy him. But if he demanded... If he took.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“You offer, and you give, and you promise, and sometimes I want you to be as selfish and needy as I am.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“I need...to stop asking. It's all I've done. Ask and beg and lure and seduce, and it hasn't worked. Because you're still not sure about me." "Maybe you need to start asking.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“I can be soft for you." It was so quiet, so hesitant, he knew she wasn't talking about the willingness of her body. "I can be soft with you.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“What do you need?" A thousand things, but nothing as much or as hard as this. "Someone who gets me. Who doesn't want me to be anything or anyone else. What do I want?" He drew her closer. "I want it to be you." "I want it to be me, too.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession

“If I'm yours, I'm yours. Behind closed doors, just the two of us. Is that enough?”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Possession