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“The greater good’ is the cream cheese icing on a crap cake — spread thick by those wielding the spatula as a weapon to hide the stench beneath. Many will take a bite, only realizing too late what they’re being fed.”

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“Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's house, half-conscious with my underwear around my ankles? Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?”

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Book:Boy Parts

Source: Boy Parts

“BDSM, in its nature, is a very intimate and intelligent therapy, if done properly.”

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Book:Miss. A and Johnny's European Escapade LONDON: Femme Fatale Rescue Diaries

Source: Miss. A and Johnny's European Escapade LONDON: Femme Fatale Rescue Diaries

“On the other hand, she happily kept him informed about plans she had with other people, providing a steady flow of information about excursions that were about to happen, details of dates or parties that were always this close to coming together. As long as he listened, without complaint, to an endless description of activities that were supposed to happen without him, there was a 30 percent chance, at least, that Anna would change her mind at the last minute, claim to be unable to handle the unbearable burden of whatever her social plans were supposed to be, and decide to hang out with him instead. She'd arrive at his house and collapse in exaggerated relief: "I am so glad we're doing this, I was so not in the mood for another party at Maria's." As though they were both equally at the mercy of circumstance, similarly oblivious to the power dynamic that governed their "friendship.”

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Book:You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“We needed something to nurture, and they needed nurturing. Constant attention made you need it even more. The band never learned to be alone and neither did we. But if they were starved for attention and we were, too, didn't we make a perfect pair?”

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Book:Groupies

Source: Groupies

“But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort or another.”

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Book:The Only Story

Source: The Only Story

“The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a dinerlike purgatory instead, waiting and hoping and taking orders.”

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Book:Three Women

Source: Three Women

“Questions about the validity of violence should have been directed to those institutions that held and continue to hold a monopoly on violence: the police, the prisons, the military.”

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Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“Wenni ins wäatzhaus gäi Doud mia kai zäije wäi Nua wenni ärwern mou Oh wäi mai fouß!”

Motivational Subjectivity

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