Time Quote by Karen Joy Fowler

“She grips my elbow tighter, somehow finding the thinnest skin to dig her fingernails into. I want to pry her fingers from my arm,…

— Beth Revis

“I saw fingerprint sized bruises on her thighs. She told me she had been bumping into things at work. They disappeared afterwards. I later…

— Steven Magee

“One of her hands is slowly tracing up and down from my waist to my arm. The feel of her hands against my skin…

— Colleen Hoover

“About prying her legs apart, making her mine. But I didn’t want that. If she said no, I would stop. I wouldn’t hurt her,…

— Natasha Knight

“I’d spent countless hours on the couch in the basement, staring at the ceiling wondering what she was doing. Her laughter, her smile, the…

— Katie McGarry

“I felt that I did not really remember her except through the pain, and I longed for the nails that riveted her to my…

— Marcel Proust

“I would never harm her. Hurt her? Yes. Violate her? Yes. Make her bleed for me? A hundred percent yes. Make her cry for…

— D.S. Wrights

“I was ten years old, and I was still playing conkers and knocking off sweet shops while she was sitting on the linoleum floor…

— Neil Gaiman

“I wanted to highlight her bruises, mark her skin, so everyone knew she belonged to me. I wanted to brand her, to scar her,…

— Pepper Winters

“I didn’t believe I’d been on the receiving end of such an overt show of possession in my entire life. It made me want…

— Kate Canterbary

“Her bones felt thin and hollow beneath my fists, but her frailty didn't deter me. I wanted her to feel my pain.”

— Courtney Cole

“she advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cunt.”

— William Peter Blatty