"There’s risk inherent in most things that matter."
- Alexis Hall
"We are all the playground of angels and demons."
"I had no idea it would be like this. That having someone on their knees for you would make you so vulnerable."
"Kink crowds are the same the world over. The good ones are already taken, the hot ones only talk to each other, and everyone else is desperate."
"I stared at him. At this too-thin, too-sincere boy. This person.Because I knew what he meant. I understood exactly. And I’d felt it too, that interior certainty. But over the years, I’d let all the fe..."
"Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers."
"Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel."