The Risk Quotes

“Love alone can’t fix me. I’m broken in ways you can’t imagine. Daily, I’m coping with scenarios I build in my head… scenarios involving you in danger. I see danger everywhere. It’s who I am, what I do. I can’t help the way I feel. I need to closet you, coddle you, protect you against my bosom and smother you.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“He and I were both dominant beings and to submit to each other was our war of attrition; giving up everything we were to one another was beautiful, but at the same time chafing. We’d forever be warring because we were both so strong, so defiant. The mental struggle for personal and interpersonal dominance was real.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“Dominating the world by day, most powerful men needed to submit by night to maintain the polarity of their tastes, indeed their lives, if just for a moment. But it was also about men in general, too – because men generally don’t enjoy hurting women. But a woman hurting a man? Most people would admit there was something nasty and naughty about it all. And right. Just so right. Needing pain was Shay’s dirty little secret because by day she promoted femdom, but in the very late hours she needed someone to give her pain, a deep pain nobody but Teddy could deliver, not in the same way. Deep, soul-churning pain from the one man she’d ever loved. The one man she’d ever love.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“The clouds were clearing and yet no sunshine was pouring through, only the icy terror of revelations unleashed – revelations dark and dangerous.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“I kept tapping my pen against the blank page, realising there were words inside me, but I wasn’t ready to put them down yet. I wouldn’t force them out and risk creating something watered down or diplomatic, so I’d have to wait for the day when I had enough strength to give my all to the story of someone who ended up marrying a billionaire, but started out life feeling very sorry for herself.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“I saw the confliction in his eyes and I danced internally amid that confliction, swallowing it like melted chocolate. This power I held over him was miraculous.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“I was no longer myself, I was a conduit for his deviance, for his dark pleasures. I was on fire and mentally pleading with him to touch my clit and give me the gentleness which would give way to dangerous, brutal pleasure.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk

“I wanted to be a butterfly caught on the breeze, floating and free finally, my knowledge of who this man really was fulfilled after just one night of no more lies, no more pain – just love.”
― Sarah Michelle Lynch, The Risk