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“Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“if this was what love was, then I didn’t know how anyone could bear the weight of it.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I've seen”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“Is it weird to pray during sex? Maybe it is, but sometimes it happens. I’ve tried to accept that it’s who I am—a man who loves God, and who loves fucking, that I can be dirty and holy all in the same moment.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“I swear I am seeing stars, and it's not the night sky that I'm looking at, because my eyes are shut, and she's lighting up the heavens as I feel things buried deep within me.”
― Willow Fox, Faking it with the Billionaire

“Do it, princess. You don’t even have to tie me down. I’d gladly lie there while I bleed for you.”
― Shantel Tessier, Sabotage

“He tried to make me a victim. I turned myself into a survivor. That’s nothing to be embarrassed about.”
― Shantel Tessier, Sabotage

“You gotta look your best when you decide to show your crazy. Otherwise, you’re just another stupid bitch like all the rest. Any woman can allow a man to make her go insane. The point is to stand out—be remembered and feared for your toxicity—but look fuckable while you’re doing it.”
― Shantel Tessier, Sabotage

“I could have checked first, but if you ask anyone who knows me, they’ll tell you that I can be dramatic. Plus, I just like to break shit. It can be very therapeutic.”
― Shantel Tessier, Sabotage

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I will break from loving him, I think. I will split with it, burn with it.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“It bothered me that he was perfect. It bothered me that I hated him. It bothered me that I hated him and he still made me feel itchy and out of control. It”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I believe,” Ash said coldly, “that the words you are looking for are, ‘Yes, sir.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“Fuck, I can’t stop,” Embry says as I writhe and moan underneath him. “I gotta—I have to—” “Do it,” Ash says roughly. “Show me how much you like using my wife. Show me how grateful you are.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I wanted to tell Ash that loving him was like a scar, like a disease, it would always be there, I’d never be cured of it, and I didn’t want to be.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“no amount of violence or cruelty can rupture my faith in myself, my agency and ability to choose and to love.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“Witching light, my aunt Nimue used to call it. The kind of light necessary for performing deeds that couldn’t be done in the light of day.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“And if I ever thought Ash held all the power in their relationship, I see it clearly now. Embry holds my husband’s heart in his hands and he doesn’t even know it. He’s too busy looking at the details of Ash’s faces to see the expression, too busy being in love to see how loved he is.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“It was the purest heavens in the midst of the worst hell, and I loved every minute of it, even though it was all underpinned by a lie--my lie—and I knew one day it would burn down around me.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I lean down and drop a kiss on the top of his head. “Goodbye, Achilles,” I whisper, and I leave Maxen Ashley Colchester alone with his head in his hands. I leave and get in my car and go back home, remembering the feel of his hair on my lips.
I will break from loving him, I think. I will split with it, burn with it.
And yet, for the first time, I know what I have to do. I know that I’m a good man, I know that I’d be a good leader. I know that I can stop Melwas and keep Greer safe. I know how to do it.
I have to become more than a prince.
I have to become a king myself.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I’m here for your rage and your fear and your shame. Vent it on me, Greer. Strike me with it, burn me with it, scratch it into my skin. Cry it, whisper it, scream it. I want it all. I’ll take it all, because I promised to care for your pain and your pleasure, did I not? And isn’t this pain?” I give him the smallest of nods, and he continues, “So then doesn’t it belong to me?”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I met his eyes, which were almost black in the dark. “Whatever you want.” “What I want will have you flat on the ground with tears in your eyes. You think you want to give that to me?” “No.” I swallowed. “I want you to take it from me.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“Perhaps Embry’s always had the part of me that wielded the sword, but she… she’s always owned the part that wears the crown.”
― Sierra Simone, American King

“Some people had men woo them with jewelry, with roses and orchids and champagne. I had a man who sent me knives and parasitic flowers. I was smiling the rest of the day.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt in the Wound

“You are terrified that your soul will be damned to hell. And I no longer have one left at all.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt in the Wound

“The curse doesn’t care. It’s used to being lonely, to aching for what it can never have. And if I’m alone in falling for her, then she’s made me feel not alone in so much else. Grief. Nightmares. Being snared by the dark gravity of Mark’s world.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“Juniper berries are a superfood, which basically makes gin a cold-pressed juice,” he says. “I’m looking out for my health.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“When you see him, I want you to do something for me. Ask him if he feels like he might die if he doesn’t get to touch you again... Because there’s another man who does.”
― T.L. Swan, The Stopover

“Hate me, curse me, I cared little, so long as I was the first thought of her day and the last of her night.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“I’m not broken,” she whispers. “You don’t need me to fix you. You need me to sit with you in the sadness.”
― Pam Godwin, Knotted