Oh, trust me, Lieutenant Colchester, I always keep both eyes on a man directly underneath me. Both hands too.

Colchester, Ash, my captain, staking my body with his cock like a conqueror, like a king.

Viața este o spirală. Cât trăim, avansăm. Dar, pe un drum de spirală, să te apropii de țintă înseamnă să treci, periodic, prin lucruri similare-emoții, probleme, defecte-iar și iar, așa cum o persoană care urcă pe o scară în spirală se îndreaptă cu fața spre nord la fiecare zece trepte.

Do you taste that?” I ask, pressing the pads of my fingertips onto her tongue. “That’s the taste of the pussy I’m about to fuck.

I missed it the way you miss the sun after a long stretch of cloudy days, where you begin to forget the cloudiness, forget to miss the sun, and then one day it comes back to you so hot and clear and bright that you wonder how you ever lived without it.

Si vis amari, ama," you tell me. If you wish to be loved, love.

I believe,” Ash said coldly, “that the words you are looking for are, ‘Yes, sir.

Sometimes I forget, you know? Sometimes I'm still just Delphine Dansey, and I'm the same girl who likes silly television and lipstick and lots of champagne. And then other times, it feels like it's touched everything in my life. Left smudges everywhere. Smudges and dirt.''Both can be true.

Nous venions de franchir toutes les barrières, nous n’étions plus un prêtre et sa pénitente, plus Tyler et Poppy, mais simplement un homme et une femme tels que Dieu nous avait faits, Adam et Ève, dans leurs formes les plus élémentaires et fondamentales. Nous étions la création incarnée et je sentais qu’elle partageait cette impression, que, d’une certaine façon, nous ne faisions qu’un. De manière irrévocable et indéniable, je m’étais anéanti en elle et elle en moi.

Life is a spiral. As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things—emotions, issues, character flaws—over and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.