Quote by Victoria Hislop

“She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“felt chained, totally at his mercy, and the submissive in her revelled in it.”

— Kitty French

“She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.”

— Emily C.A. Snyder

“She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.”

— Katie Fforde

“She phrased it masterfully, displaying a steadiness that was acting as if it were struggling to wrap itself in politeness.”

— Stendhal

“There would be a sweet release of strength and responsibility, a sinking into another’s power, no need to feign her own. This”

— Hugh Howey

“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.”

— Amanda Coplin

“I was many things. I was submissive. I was masochistic. I was trusting. I was a sexual slave. But obedient? Not as much.”

— C.D. Reiss

“... She is awesomely competent without being smug. She is determined without being bossy, morally certain without being judgmental. She likes herself but is…

— Dean Koontz

“She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their…

— Jane Austen