#dsm

With you. I'll be with you. ↗

— Belinda McBride

#bdsm

My cousin fell in love with a dom, so I checked into it to see if I needed to kill him before they got married. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#bondage #erotic-romance #funny #romance #funny

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom. ↗

— Joseph Bean

#inspirational #sex-appeal #inspirational

I was caught by him. I was absolutely, unintentionally ensnared. Held by the look in his cocoa brown eyes when he spoke, commanding me. I shivered at his words as if they were touches sliding down my spine. ↗

— Paloma Beck

#bdsm #hold-my-hand #love #romance #love

She squeezed her eyes shut. “No.” “Excuse me?” She sniffed, opened her eyes then looked up. “No. I don’t wish you to leave.” His eyes changed from lukewarm to hot. The iron of the seat met her back. Oh yes, definitely she was the keeper at the zoo and she’d just offered her own leg, medium-rare, to the lion. ↗

— Cari Silverwood

#erotic-romance #historical-romance #change

S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off'… ↗

— Pat Califia

#bdsm #bodies #imagination

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. ↗

— Anonymous

#inspirational #love-story #romance #inspirational

I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet... ↗

— Anne Rice

#bad #bdsm #beauty #girl #punishment

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#wordsmithing #writing #beauty

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#art #porup #swordsmanship #writing #zen