#adult

And Vicky also told her sister that all girls at the Health Centre considered that men were born crazy, if not down-right stupid.They were prepared to do crazy things & pay high prices just to prove how "macho" they were, when it came to young pretty girls. And the sisters tittered with laughter at the thought of the old men who enjoyed drinking Phyllis` urine & the young men who ate cucumber sandwiches filled with her excrement. And thus Vicky told Phyllis that although one should not take candy off children, it was quite in order to take money off crazy & stupid rich men.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#men

As he hums the melody softly into my ear, I can feel the notes seep deep into my skin and bones, and birth an ache in my soul I never knew existed. What is this, if not impossible? ↗

— Ashleyn Poston

#music #new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-romance #love

If he was like any of his music, he would be complex, explosive, sweet, sensual, and passionate. ↗

— Kailin Gow

#contemporary-fiction-music #erotica-romance #kailin-gow #sensuality #the-protege

The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought. ↗

— C.G. Rousing

#fantasy-fiction #fantasy-series #fantasy-young-adult #fiction #fiction-novel

Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#ya #young-adult #young-adult-romance #relationship

There’s nothing easier to ‘acquire’ than a girl with a broken heart. ↗

— Daniele Lanzarotta

#new-adult #owen #new-adult

Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#closeted #homosexuality #hypocrisy #prohibition #religion

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice. ↗

— Dan Wells

#science-fiction #young-adult #science

Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #respect #young-adult

Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling ↗

— Darlenne Susan Girard

#young-adult #respect