Tender Arena Quotes & Sayings

He swayed side-to-side, fighting against my compulsion. I smiled sweetly, leaning in and grazing my nail across his cheek. "You understand?" Skin contact made it solid. His shock melted into a gooey grin.

J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 173-175). — J.R. Thorn

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses, or that you must be strong and steady as the horse careens to the far end of the arena and back with you riding on its back. It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.
The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unafraid to kill you. And so you cannot forget this, either.
It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind. — Alexander Chee

I tend to take negative comments to heart. — Heston Blumenthal

Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that. — Clive Barker

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused. — Karl Marx

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. — Mary Douglas

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. — Joseph Collins

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination. — Sandra Alex