Working out the Kinks Quotes

“On whose fucking authority had I become interested in spanking? I tried taking stock of my brain and my gut and my dick, but nobody felt like stepping forward.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“My wires weren’t just crossed, they were tangled up like a box of Christmas lights, all knots and broken glass, blinking and shorting out with every move I made.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“I jammed it down in my gut alongside all the other guilt I was already packing, put on my rock star face, and pretended I didn’t hate every damn thing about myself.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“I can sense it on you right now, you know. Paycheck to paycheck, that’s a disease, and you have it. You’re literally worthless. And people can tell. It’s why you’ll never be happy. It’s why you’ll never be able to make anyone happy. Because deep down, probably not even that deep, you know you don’t deserve it.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“I hadn’t been anywhere like this since high school, since Brett’s house. It had been gross with excess, but this place was fucking hideous. There might as well have been hundred dollar bills stapled to the goddamn walls with all the fat, velvet sofas and enormous rugs, and everything gold, gold, gold wherever an accent could be shoved.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“Him dismantling me piece by piece until I’d actually started just handing parts of me over.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“I wanted to say something good, something better, something real. I wanted to say I know what it’s like to lose yourself. To feel alone, like nothing and no one in the world can touch you, even if you want to be touched. I wanted to say you’re the only person who’s ever touched me the way I want, and I’m scared to death of ruining you.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“It wasn’t something I craved too often. Never like I wanted it now. I’d never craved being filled up with someone else just so I could be more of them and less of myself.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“He was already everywhere. In my bed, in my sheets, sprawled on my couch— he was a ghost before he even left, a memory in the present,”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“If slapping and sparring with someone who was so damn good at pushing my buttons I wanted to choke them counted as romance, then fuck, maybe I was a romantic after all.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“I pushed myself up off the floor, grabbing the boxes and dishes and cups, trying to make myself look busy instead of terrified.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“Every sound that came out of my mouth was so embarrassing I wanted to punch it.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“I gave my reflection another onceover, pretending I wasn’t gauging hotness levels because that did not fucking matter. Still, I ran my hand through my hair trying for wet rock god and achieved it in three tries. What a fucking asshole.”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks

“Call me a pussy if you want. Delusional, impractical, whatever. But, I know myself, and that shit’s called survival. The bad in me, it doesn’t play around, and when it finds me, days get dark. It”
― Misha Horne, Working out the Kinks