“If we’re going to kiss, I want to be able to see it’s you.” — Charlotte Stein Going Copy Share Image
“Someday he’ll actually kiss me, and I’ll turn to dust and blow away.” — Charlotte Stein Someday Copy Share Image
“I would be deliciously pleased if you could rectify this issue.” — Charlotte Stein Pleased Copy Share Image
“I hate him. Except for all the places where I love him half to death.” — Charlotte Stein Death Copy Share Image
“Ohhh that’s good. Fuck you’re greedy. What do you want, huh? Tell me what you want.” — Charlotte Stein Greedy Copy Share Image
“I know,” he says, and it’s the strangest thing. I can tell he’s smiling, slow and syrupy, when he says it.” — Charlotte Stein Smile Copy Share Image
“You're a bad girl, trying to force me over the edge. ... But you don't have to. I'm already there. I'm already… — Charlotte Stein Bad girl Copy Share Image
“Girl with a pie, I’ll call it. It’s almost like guy with an axe, if you squint hard enough.” — Charlotte Stein Abbie Copy Share Image
“I missed the strangest, most exciting event of my life, because I couldn’t believe it was real.” — Charlotte Stein Life Copy Share Image
“It would never be a half-life, with you. You are the other half of me. I will always be my truest self,… — Charlotte Stein Half life Copy Share Image
“She would have punched him, if she’d had a magical punch-erasing time machine about her person.” — Charlotte Stein Punched Copy Share Image
“We’re never doing this again. The next time I leave, you’re coming with me.” — Charlotte Stein Coming Copy Share Image
“And yet I feel I have to ask: if this is all the case, and you are so little and so weak… — Charlotte Stein Presence Copy Share Image
“Ohhhh are you coming?” he asks me. “Oh God Mallory, I can feel you doing it around my cock. I can feel… — Charlotte Stein Dirty talk Copy Share Image
“It’s enough to send a spike of sensation through me, and enough to make him push out this delicious sound. It’s like… — Charlotte Stein Sensation Copy Share Image
“She’d never really touched their faces before, but that didn’t mean anything. She touched other parts of them all the time. Or… — Charlotte Stein Touched Parts Copy Share Image
“Did I make you this wet?” he asks, just as he smoothes two fingers all the way down to dip right into… — Charlotte Stein Bite My Lip Copy Share Image
“Whereas this…this was wet. His lips sank into a rhythm obviously familiar to him—like a kind of slow rock over her mouth—and… — Charlotte Stein Gaze Copy Share Image
“The bath wasn’t the best thing. Lying with him spooned up against her, listening to the rain rattle against the glass and… — Charlotte Stein Bath Copy Share Image
“You are a strange people. So loving, yet so lonely, inside. I would lie awake at night and gaze up at the… — Charlotte Stein Awake at night Copy Share Image
“I’m not some sex addict trying to sort myself out. I don’t get a high from fucking everything that walks. I get… — Charlotte Stein Addict Copy Share Image
“See—this is the problem. You don’t even get where this is going. You can’t just ask me to come in, or kiss… — Charlotte Stein Friend Copy Share Image
“Why not? It's true. I don't even laugh for anyone but you." She hesitated, for that one. Did he really mean that?… — Charlotte Stein Funny guy Copy Share Image
“You know what else is adorable? When I can clearly see you having a furious discussion in your own head.” “That’s visible… — Charlotte Stein Communication Copy Share Image
“Because that is how you feel, is it not? You feel so perfectly invisible, like no one could ever notice a single… — Charlotte Stein Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Mick...” I begin, as his tongue curls just ever so slightly around my earlobe. “I think you’re gorgeous, but...” “You think I’m… — Charlotte Stein Tongue Copy Share Image
“You’re absolutely gorgeous! Hideously gorgeous! I hate to break it to you, Mick, but gorgeous men aren’t afraid of asking clever women… — Charlotte Stein Brain Says Copy Share Image
“There’s just the memory of that time he walked in on her while she was dressing, and afterward couldn’t string a sentence… — Charlotte Stein Boobs Copy Share Image
“You don’t really have idea about any of that olden-days stuff, do you?” He’s sure he can feel her smiling against his… — Charlotte Stein First time Copy Share Image
“And your words …” “Tell me about my words.” “They make me crazy.” “Which ones, specifically?” “All of them. Any of them.”… — Charlotte Stein Oh god Copy Share Image
“Do you think you are so very hard to read? Perhaps no one has ever bothered before, and this has led you… — Charlotte Stein Education Copy Share Image
“But you should know it’s not because I don’t like you, or want to be your friend. I do want to be… — Charlotte Stein Friend Copy Share Image
“I love you,” he says, though once he’s done it I can see he isn’t happy with it. He shakes his head… — Charlotte Stein Declaration-of-love Copy Share Image
“You know, there’s nothing you could tell me that would change my mind about you.” “That’s ‘cause you know me now, June.… — Charlotte Stein Barbed wire Copy Share Image
“Of course I could have done things differently. I could stop fucking thinking about you and obsessing over you and fucking wanting… — Charlotte Stein Every day Copy Share Image