Forbidden Quotes

“What did I ever do to deserve you?” I asked. “You let me love you.” “Is that all?” “Yes.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“We were connected. All of us. By the gestures of our hands and the tones of our voices. By our intentions, our actions, our loyalties, By our willingness to sacrifice for one another, we were joined by the ropes of our love and held fast by the knots of our hearts. I was among my people, and I was worthy of them.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“She was worth running for. Worth every loss in my life. Worth stepping outside the law. Worth living, dying, and everything in between.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“Promises were for children and people who weren’t worthy of trust.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I want to start over. I want a clean slate. I can’t bear it. Everything that makes me happy hurts someone.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“It is. It’s all over. The system is fucked. You can’t win by doing things the right way in this world. No. There is no right and wrong. There’s only what you get away with and what you don’t.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“He stared at me as if I had a really good book stuck to my face.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I want to be normal.” “Jesus Christ. You might as well want to be taller. Normal wasn’t the hand you were dealt. You and I, we’re not normal. That’s not a choice we have.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“But I was going to wait because I had the feeling he’d be worth it.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“Where I would go? Who would love me the way I needed to be loved? Would I spend the rest of my life in a state of free fall, doing everything I could to find out where the bottom was?”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I told you right there. I’ll destroy you. Men like you… you’re nice. I’d eat you up and spit you out. I’d fuck you and leave you and—look, this isn’t my ego talking. Nice guys don’t last in my world. Nice guys with boundaries and common sense? I’m not paying for your therapy bills.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“Had I been scared that whole time? Had I held myself back from doing things because I was afraid?”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I was in a now that was so short, I stopped wanting anything but to live. To get across, to get away.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“He was a Dominant, a Master, and he knew his words had power.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I wasn’t entitled to pray for God to do his job, because it wasn’t his job to make things easy for me.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“You make people think of you for a living. You remind them you exist.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I love you, Kitten,” he said. “And I’m sorry I tied you up to say this. But I need you to hear it, and I need your defenses down.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I keep looking for an answer from other people, like they’re going to tell me how I am. I feel myself wanting you to tell me if I’m okay. I didn’t realize that was what I expected from you,”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“She didn’t understand us. No one would.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“Let’s face it. You don’t even understand you. The difference between us is that I happen to love you.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I know you find me repulsive.” “I don’t.” “You do. You’ve never understood me.” “That’s not the same as finding you repulsive,”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“He slides two fingers in my cunt so slowly, I feel my soul go to heaven.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I’m going to tie you and fuck you breathless.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“really want to fuck.” “I need it.” I whisper the only three words I have at the moment.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“We break down and rebuild ourselves every seven to ten years.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“He understood me and he still wanted me, not in spite of my failings, but because of them.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“What you feel pity about, my childhood, is what protects me. You were given nothing. You were free from want. From even the slightest anxiety. Now you have nothing to protect you. Every slap feels like a bullet wound. You tolerate more pain in your life right now than I do.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“Be careful with her. She’s the most valuable thing I have.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“But against all the odds, against even the laws of physics and logic, we did.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden

“I was going to love her brutally and unconditionally. Forever and ever, amen.”
― C.D. Reiss, Forbidden