Burned Too Hot Quotes

“before, the single time they’d made love. He’d focused on her, giving to her, never asking for anything in return. And she had taken, because she’d been too weak, too needy to do anything else. Val didn’t want that now. She smoothed her hands over his shoulders, savoring the texture of his skin, then gripping his biceps, she guided him up her body. He paused. “Tell me what you need. I can…” “Shh.” Val went to work on his clothes, pulling the t-shirt over his head, unbuttoning his jeans, easing denim and underwear down his thighs. He sprang free, and she held him, one hand on his shaft, the other cradling from underneath. “I’m not a victim,” she whispered. “I know you’re not.” “I don’t want pity.”
― Ann Voss Peterson, Burned Too Hot

“Never having been dead, it was merely speculation.”
― Ann Voss Peterson, Burned Too Hot