Quote by Jennifer Echols

“He said he didn’t like my kind and I was filled with the delirious expectation that he would identify me as a common species…

— Steve Aylett

“I'm glad you're back to your normal, perverted self. That half hour you practiced self control was awful.”

— Vi Keeland

“Somehow you always stayed quiet.” He laid his hands beside each of mine, so that if he’d been solid, I would’ve been pinned between…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

“I was afraid that if I did anything at all without bartering for at least some small thing in return, he might think I…

— Margaux Fragoso

“I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“Sometimes, he thought, you had to do things you detested, in order to have the things that you truly wanted.”

— Joy Ellis

“Was he just humouring me? Just giving me the illusion of control while he manipulated me into doing what he wanted with his overwhelming…

— Ripley Patton

“I'm annoyed because he assumed I'd have dinner with him, then continued to assume I would even after I refused. It's a normal reaction.”

— Nora Roberts

“He understood that I was in my own head and I was safe there. I'd come back when I felt like I could.”

— Shelly Crane

“I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.”

— Tara Brach

“I really hoped he wouldn't be at dinner. Mainly because I didn't want to stare at him like a dumbass.”

— Nichole Chase

“But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.”

— Sherwood Smith