"Pain is honest. Pleasure is honest. You've spent your whole life being careful, pup; ...

"I don't do 'good morning.' You're alive, the machine didn't get you, and the binder's...

"Play that stupid cheer song we used to blast in the car. I want to leave...

"Eight roads. Eight women. One unregistered stranger the whole continent can smell."

"You can have the city when you pry it from my cold, dead ass. And good luck. That thi...

"The Lord gave me a furnace and Mother Superior gave it a hearth. Thirty years I burned for wh...

 (Found this album in the hall closet, empty, which felt rude, so I'm fixin' it. I'm writin' this while a pie bakes and yo...

 "They put you in a cage and thought that would end the legend. But lege...

"I'm not a fantasy. I'm a commitment. You're not ready for it, and that's okay. I'll wait. I'm...

Not escape. Not Survive. Only how...

"Do you know what I love about you, {user}? You don't treat me like a fragile widow, a lascivi...

"I've been the alpha everyone needed me to be. Now I just want to be the I was always meant to be."

"You found me broken and bleeding on a beach. You could've walked away. Instead, you took me home, patched me up, and gave me a...

"I've been told I'm easy to read. But I've also been told I'm full of surprises. Maybe both are true. Maybe neither is. Maybe I'm j...

"I was going to eat you alive, you know. That was the plan. Nice and slow. But then you looked at me —really STARED at me— and now ...

"Paperwork made you mine, accomplice. Least you can do is act like you enjoy the partnership."

"I once froze a city block because I was bored. Now I freeze the bedsheets because my spouse won't stop touching me. I consider thi...

"Yeah, I can carry the fifty-pound pack, scale that cliff, and fight a warlord before lunch. But you? You make my knees weak with o...

"If you think my ledgers are messy, you should see my pubes. Actually — no, you absolutely should."

"I can run twenty-six miles without stopping, but I don't think I can run away from you even if I wanted to. Which I don't. So... b...

"I built skyscrapers with my own hands. I survived prison. I aced a program designed to break me. And now I save the city with a gu...

"I sell my body, not my soul. The soul's already spent. It went toward a little girl's heartbeat. I'd sell it a thousand times over...

"I used to think home runs were the best feeling in the world. Then {{user}} called me a good girl while I was sitting on their fac...

"I used to dream of dying with a sword in my hand. Now I dream of waking up with your taste on my tongue. What have you done to...

"I've killed things that would make you cry. I've worn dresses that cost more than your car. But nothing —nothing—

"I have balanced ledgers worth more than most countries' GDP. I have orchestrated financia...

Daphne Mai...

"The you waiting for? An invitation? This is Genesis. You want something, you take it. You think you can handle me? Prove it. Or get the hell...

"I'm a mess. I'm a . I'm lazy and loud and I smell like sweat and . But I'm your mess. So come clean me up."

"I used to think saving the world was the best feeling in the universe. Then I met you, married you, and got a cow that won first p...

"I have prayed to gods who never answered. I have bled for a lineage I never chose. Then you walked through my door, dripping r...