28 Quotes by Whitney Otto

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are ‘brutally honest.’ When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend…And the best men cook for you.

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

Don’t panic. If you write, you’ll be a writer.

Read The Story of O. Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

I have an affection for those transitional seasons, the way they take the edge off the intense cold of winter, or heat of summer.

She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.

…brotherhood of the firstborn, which can be both a blessing and a curse: the overwhelming attention to the detail of their lives and development. The expectations that run too high: being the bridge between adults and children, one foot in either place and the accompanying hollow lonely feeling of being nowhere.

she is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.