Reiss Quotes & Sayings

I could fall into him in a blink and lose myself in him in a breath. — C.D. Reiss

The problem is this. When you dominate me, I'm in love. But when I submit, your love dies. — C.D. Reiss

You forgot to cross off anal sex."
"I tried it once. Didn't like it. If you're better at it, I'll have another crack." I paused. "No pun intended. — C.D. Reiss

Aristotle believed democracy could exist only because of slavery, which gave citizens the leisure for higher pursuits. (Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men like Washington and Jefferson the free time to better themselves and to participate in representative government.) — Tom Reiss

That smell mixed with the scent of getting tied up and fucked became the smell of complete release, of an orchestra connected by the simple movements of a skilled conductor. — C.D. Reiss

There was nothing more offensive than a man blessed with looks where he should have been given courtesy. — C.D. Reiss

You are a natural submissive, Monica. You enjoy being obedient. You cede control with both hands. It's exactly right. — C.D. Reiss

My fingers memorized his face, the textures and lines, to the tempo of his rising urgency. I love you I trust you I love you I trust you. Warm pleasure spread over my body like spilled milk, until I was covered in it, toes curling, back arching, legs stiffening,. I held back a cry and came for him, only him. — C.D. Reiss

We aren't some casual fuck, and we never were. Not from the first night. Not from the first time I laid eyes on you. You were built for me. I denied it as long as I could, but we were meant to be together. You are the sea under my sky. We're bound at the horizon. — C.D. Reiss

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers. — Paul Theroux

It is an Akido style of martial art. The family disturber throws their disturbance at me like a punch, and I flow with it and its energy, while taking care of myself and my opponent. In Mindell's work, an attitude of eldership means the elder uses dance to dance freely between the energy of the disturber and the energy of the one disturbed. In Mindell's talk, he explains that when we get down to this level, we are in Process Mind or into the mind behind the system itself. — Gary Reiss

He smiled like a cat who'd just eaten a pet shop full of canaries, — C.D. Reiss

I walk like an ocean wave, and I sing like a storm. My voice is a force of its own, and I let it loose like a hurricane. — C.D. Reiss

Was this kid ever going to be a man? — C.D. Reiss

God, that piece of meat between his legs was a beautiful sight. — C.D. Reiss

You are either going forward or you are not. — Mitchell Reiss

God, I shouldn't have said anything. Because Dash's eyes had gone wide and his lips parted a little, then a lot, and his tongue was fidgeting with his teeth.

"Stop looking at me like that."

"I'm stuck," he said.

"Stuck? What does that mean?"

"Between wanting to punch him and wanting to eat you out until you scream. I don't think I can do both at the same time. — C.D. Reiss

Fuck me." I said it so softly a butterfly wouldn't have heard me. "Say it again. But this time, own it. — C.D. Reiss

God, she was one big nerve ending, that girl, and those big brown eyes got just a little wider when she was close. And those bruises. And how she begged for them.
I knew she was special the night I met her, I just didn't know how special. — C.D. Reiss

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently. — Mitchell Reiss

I want you to understand something. That man? He's not some boyfriend in a line of them. He is my alpha and omega. He is the sky over me. Without him, I'm lost. There's no one else, no one whose soul balances mine the way his does. I've waited my life for him, and when he came, I didn't recognize him. Not until recently. If I lose him, I swear, as God is my witness, I will be alone. No man can match him. — C.D. Reiss

I watched him put his fingers to his lips and blow me a kiss before shaking his hand as if I was too hot to handle. — C.D. Reiss

There were too many fires to put out. Too many pieces to move across the chessboard. — C.D. Reiss

She was a good person," I said. "One of the best. — C.D. Reiss

Small talk is a lubricant, not an insult, — C.D. Reiss

Was there anyone before you?" "You might have thought so at the time." "I feel like no one's ever loved me before." "I'm sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me." Monica Faulkner, Jonathan Drazen - Resist — C.D. Reiss

I'm human, It's a terminal condition — C.D. Reiss

Oh God, yes, you little fucking whore. Take it all. — C.D. Reiss

Knowing less than the sum of what I remembered and forgot, only blank, preciously empty but for pleasure. — C.D. Reiss

I'd find a life somewhere in the rubble. — C.D. Reiss

The last time I'd felt right was when I was with Vivian. I had to go back. All the way back, before I'd built anything. I was running out of time. I had to accept that I was obsessed with her, ask for forgiveness, and rebuild around her. Without her, I'd not only be worthless all season, I'd be plain worthless. — C.D. Reiss

Every day," he whispered, "I'll take you like this. In the morning, before coffee, I fuck you. At night, I fuck you harder. In our bedroom, our living room, our kitchen, I'll love you in every room. Amore mio, I'll break you with my love and put you back together. And when I retire, you still call me Capo because you're mine. Always mine. — C.D. Reiss

I always wanted you. — C.D. Reiss

There is no world without you in it. Nothing. I'm not talking about despair. I've lost people. This isn't me being a child. There is one universe. Just one. And it's between us. If you destroy that universe, you destroy me. Do you understand what I'm saying? — C.D. Reiss

I couldn't fail. That wasn't allowed. — C.D. Reiss

Indeed, who has a greater right to public respect than the man of color fighting for freedom after having experienced all the horrors of slavery? To equal the most celebrated warriors he need only keep in mind all the evils he has suffered. — Tom Reiss

His lips were a promise, a blood bond, a kiss of greeting and goodbye, and the years in between. — C.D. Reiss

I don't talk like that about men because I prefer celibacy to bullshit. — C.D. Reiss

I groaned, feeling stretched and possessed, as though every part of me was under his control and protection. — C.D. Reiss

Mostly, I expected to look at him and wonder how he could make a slave of a woman who could have any man she wanted. — C.D. Reiss

Yes. And Paula's a bitch," I said without preamble. "You mean Miss Mint Julep Ladygirl Fiddle-dee-dee? Yeah. Screw her. — C.D. Reiss

... and believed him despite my better judgment. I forgave him despite my misgivings. I loved him just because I did. — C.D. Reiss

His kisses were hard and passionate, a controlled lack of restraint in every flick of his tongue, every grasp of his fingers. I pushed into him, feeling his erection against me. — C.D. Reiss

When I claim chastity, that's when the fantasy is most vibrant. — C.D. Reiss

Wherever you are," he said low and steady as I wrote his name, knee to crotch, "I own you. I own your filthy mouth. I own your dirty mind. When you get wet thinking about fucking, it's mine. Every drop from you. I own your every thought. You are my property. — C.D. Reiss

I've never needed lubricant unless I'm getting it in the ass. — C.D. Reiss

More than wanting you for myself, I want you to have a good life. — C.D. Reiss

Jonathan plopped his phone down and leaned back in his chair. "You look like you just ate a canary," Margie said to him. "I'm about to," he said. — C.D. Reiss

What mattered was the evolution of a relationship. — C.D. Reiss

He was right across the desk, and I wanted him to take me like his little vanilla whore. — C.D. Reiss

Soul meet soul on lovers' lips.Except when wax and pigment come between them — C.D. Reiss

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process. — Mitchell Reiss

It's no use being a qualified zoologist once you're inside the lion's mouth. — Gunnar Reiss-Andersen

No. You cared. The rest of them were slowing down to see the blood on the road." There had been plenty of it. — C.D. Reiss

I trust myself. I trust my instincts and my resolve. You just make me curious is all. — C.D. Reiss

Even in love you need pain — C.D. Reiss

All my life people have assumed I'm stupid because I'm quiet, I never interrupt, and I follow directions. But I'm quiet because saying less is always more. — C.D. Reiss

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues. — Mitchell Reiss

She was lovely. I just wanted to enjoy her without responsibility, but that wasn't why she was here. She'd come here to submit to me. I had a job. — C.D. Reiss

I wanted to feel good, if only for a minute, and to forget everything for as long as it took us to be bind together and fall apart. I hadn't earned it, but I wanted it. — C.D. Reiss

I own you. Like the sky owns the stars. You are mine. He slipped the gold key ring on my finger. — C.D. Reiss

We can pretend this never happened."
"Up to you." He touched my cheek with his fingertips, and I felt like an electrical cable to my nervous system went live. "I wouldn't mind finishing the job."
"Let's not promise each other anything."
"All right. No promises," he said. — C.D. Reiss

It was as if, in that laugh, they accepted me. They didn't, I knew that, but it was my moment. — C.D. Reiss

Breathe!
It was a command. And order, and I pulled in a breath before he shoved himself back in, invading me, breaking me ... — C.D. Reiss

Nothing. You need nothing. I provide you with what you need, and what I don't provide, you don't need. Think of it as a vacation from adulthood. — C.D. Reiss

I understand words like no and stop. Outside of those, your body is my playground. — C.D. Reiss

Dr. Barazon had maintained that Elfriede would not have needed to provide an Aryan cover for the real author of Ali and Nino, because the book contract was signed in April 1937, almost a full year before the Nazi Anschluss of Austria. — Tom Reiss

She became vulnerable before me, opening herself and letting me own her until I lost myself and became a beast. Without her armor, she was more beautiful than I'd imagined possible. — C.D. Reiss

Voltaire was also there, fleeing a royal arrest warrant, and working as a kind of one-man eighteenth-century USO show during the siege, offering bons mots and brandy between bouts of battle and composing odes to the military men. The — Tom Reiss

I don't want to hear what anyone has to say about my life. Living it is hard enough. — C.D. Reiss

As if him binding my hands wasn't enough for me to feel possessed, owned, protected. — C.D. Reiss

Was I made for Antonio by dint of my genetics? Was I an animal from birth? Had the ream me been dormant all this time? — C.D. Reiss

It's very simple," I said, my voice clipped and brusque. "His belt is for holding up his pants, binding me, and hurting me. His body, any part of it, is to give me pleasure and pain. If he gives any other woman either of those things with his body or any clothing accessory, it's cheating." I turned to him. "The fact that we were officially broken up notwithstanding. — C.D. Reiss

I'd never met such a sexually responsive woman. I could fuck her forever. I could fuck her and say filthy things I could never say to anyone else. She was free. Unrepressed. An open door. — C.D. Reiss

All my lies are white — C.D. Reiss

Fuck me and my inability to love him. — C.D. Reiss

You are my life. It doesn't matter what I am, or what I've done, as long as you're mine. Nothing in the past matters. There is you, and nothing else." He didn't look at me but kept his eyes on his work. A cluster of taller buildings appeared ahead, and he headed for them. "My one job," he said, holding up a finger, "is to make sure you know how to protect yourself when they finally kill me. — C.D. Reiss

I know you find me repulsive." "I don't." "You do. You've never understood me." "That's not the same as finding you repulsive, — C.D. Reiss

He'd open me where the hope lived - the hope that he'd come back, that we'd have a second chance, that what we had was meaningful and real. I couldn't imagine the pain of it. — C.D. Reiss

I've seen women come. They forget to look beautiful. They forget who they are. I want to see you when you lose yourself and all you know is my name. — C.D. Reiss

The way it had originally worked was that each of the three estates got an equal say: each had an equal number of "deputies" to represent it. This meant that the clergy and the nobility together could outvote anything that the rest, collectively known as "the Third Estate," wanted; the idea of proportional representation - or any meaningful voice for the people - was — Tom Reiss

You need a man," she said. "A rebound cock to fuck the sad right out of you. — C.D. Reiss

In Echo Park, a girl with a voice was listening, and I sang for her, so that when her day came, she wouldn't be afraid. — C.D. Reiss

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model. — Mitchell Reiss

I want to say," he said as he placed my right wrist and right knee together, "If you say stop, it's good enough for me, but we might want to set a safeword." He spread my legs to get the right length under my back and tired my right side together, letting the rest of the loop drop off the edge of the bed. "Tangerine," I said. "Tangerine?" "I doubt you can keep doing whatever it is you're doing if I saw tangerine." "Fine, wiseass. — C.D. Reiss

It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him. — Mitchell Reiss

I have the only right. I'll hurt anyone who touches what's mine. — C.D. Reiss

I couldn't let myself depend on him getting me all hot and bothered so I could sing to the throb between my legs. I had no idea how much longer he'd drag me around by the panties, but it surely wouldn't be long enough to make a career. — C.D. Reiss

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue. — Mitchell Reiss

Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket. — C.D. Reiss

didn't realize how crazy I was until I came out of it. It was like being on a descending airplane with compressed ears that whooshed until I yawned or swallowed. — C.D. Reiss

the regime had been notably anti-anti-Semitic. — Tom Reiss

But France did not have a normal government: it had a collection of caffeinated intellectuals — Tom Reiss

I bet I hit .400 with your pussy on my lips. — C.D. Reiss

You turned my existence into a life. — C.D. Reiss

Your first loyalty is to me. Every moan on your lips, Every wet drop from your cunt. When the thought of fucking crosses your mind, it's mine. Say it. — C.D. Reiss

I trust you to do what's right. But it might not be the right thing." "It's the right thing. — C.D. Reiss

Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans. — Mitchell Reiss

My name is Monica, and I am not submissive. I stand six feet tall in heels. I am descended from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. I can sing like an angel, and growl like a lion. I am not owned. I am music. — C.D. Reiss

I can't decide how to fuck you," he said. "I want to take you in every position . I want to fuck you like an animal and a saint. I want to keep you on the brink for an hour and take four orgasms from you. I can't do it all tonight. I'm kind of pissed about that. — C.D. Reiss