The Red Quotes

“You smile like the devil,” Mona said.
“The devil doesn’t smile,” he said. “The devil smirks.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“Twenty-five means you're old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“Do anything you must, but keep me forever.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“Instead of wooden floors, she found lush green grass under her feet. Instead of a ceiling, she saw a hazy blue sky. And instead of walls, she saw a silver stream through the trees. The day was halcyon. It looked like someone's memory of a perfect day.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“I have trouble respecting a woman who gives away for free what she could sell for good money. Whores are the only women who know their own worth. I mean that.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“Her brain felt like a horse on a carousel, always moving but going nowhere.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“Is this all a dream?” That’s the only thing that makes any sense.
“You aren’t dreaming,” he said, and she knew that was true. She was awake and had been every time they had met. “But if you were a dream, would you want to wake up?” he asked.
A good question. A fair question. A hard question, but one she answered easily.
“Never.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“I warned you I like to play games.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“That painting is art because it terrified its first viewers. Art should be dangerous, you know. It should say something to society that society doesn’t want to hear. Do you know what the opposite of art is? Propaganda. There’s too much of that in the world. Not enough art. And certainly not enough of”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“I love your submission to pain. It’s human nature to race toward pleasure and flee from pain. That you would fight your own nature to please me by suffering my crop arouses me more than anything you’ve done for me before.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“Art should be dangerous, you know. It should say something to society that society doesn’t want to hear. Do you know what the opposite of art is? Propaganda. There’s too much of that in the world. Not enough art. And certainly not enough of this...”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“We’ll start tomorrow night.”
“So soon?”
“Does your c*nt have a prior engagement?”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“You should be like this all the time" the midnight man said against her lips. "Naked with a cock stuck in you. You wear it well.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“The things you do to me…I’d never dare dream them, much less do them. And yet, when I’m with you, there is no game I wouldn’t play, nothing of my body would I keep from you. You leave me and I go mad with waiting. You leave me and you are my every waking thought and my every sleeping dream. And if I knew when you were returning to me, I would count the minutes until I saw you again.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red

“How dare those men judge her? They’d created her. A woman can’t sell her body without clients to buy it.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Red