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Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine.Alexis Hall
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I hated myself, and the part of me that was cowardly wished for a simple solution: an exchange of pain for forgiveness. But life didn’t work that way, and fucking up was forever.Alexis Hall
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Sex is one of those things that's complete loss of control. You give yourself up, in your most vulnerable state, to another person, and they give themselves to you.Chelsea M. Cameron
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And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.Alexis Hall
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The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.Alexis Hall
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Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.Alexis Hall
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It's not what you do, it's what it means.Alexis Hall
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There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.Alexis Hall
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I had no idea it would be like this. That having someone on their knees for you would make you so vulnerable.Alexis Hall
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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.Alexis Hall
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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 fervour fade. I’d stopped believing in it, somehow. I’d let it become something I did, not something I was.Alexis Hall