Exit To Eden Quotes
"Good bones and big eyes, that's the real foundation of the beauty."
"The Club is what it is because it believes in itself."
"The story began at The Club. And no matter where it goes from there, it's about The Club."
"Only naked and subservient are they admitted."
"I'd made more money at twenty-seven than I'd ever dreamed I'd make in a lifetime."
"Everything you see in front of you is unreal."
"Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth."
"I live in Outsider Heaven, don't I? Where all your secret desires can be satisfied."
"You only hurt people when you tell them the truth about things that they cannot respect or understand."
"A slave doesn't get shown at one of those auctions unless he or she has had the best prior training."
"The naked backs of women's knees, the little crease where a bare arm presses against the body, the way a man's shirt stretches across his chest when he puts his hands in his pockets: you see all that everywhere you go, feeling that perpetual low hum of excitement."
"No real pain or damage is ever inflicted. There are never any accidents at The Club."
"Maybe even Mr. Straight at the Saint Pierre bar in San Francisco is some kind of an outsider."
"It was realer than real, their life in their own gypsy community. Outsiders in the middle of things."
"We buy enormous numbers, at least thirty at a time if the auctions are big enough, and I'm never disappointed."
"But every year the slaves are different, a little more clever, interesting, sophisticated."
"I work out, don't you? You don't smoke. That's good."
"You'll perform much better if you are. I'm going to lock the door now, Mr. Slater."
"There was some little explosion in slow motion. And then fragments of thought or fantasy like the bits and pieces of dreams left over the next day."
"But as long as we were up here I was still caught in the net."
"I felt my breath give out, but it wasn't the running. It was the flood of sensation, the desire reaching a new pitch."
"In fact, everything was out of my hands. Maybe for the first time in my life."
"We're here to be reduced to nothing, to surrender our will."
"I realized we were going around the garden. We were being shown off."
"I couldn't make myself budge. The master of ceremonies turned around to check out the delay."
"I deliberately slowed my pace. I belonged to these people, and it was a feeling halfway to orgasm."
"Impossible to analyze this sense of shame, this sense of disaster."
"I tried to imagine I was hearing these words with the others, that I'd made it through the gardens without freaking, and my training was moving right along."
"You're a smart aleck, aren't you?" she said in a low, almost loving voice.
"You belong to me," she said in something lower than a whisper.
"You have to remember what those years are," I said. "I mean the years between sixteen and twenty-one—what they mean."
"No," I said. I shook my head. "Just tired. Make sure they send Slater to me at one P.M. Will you do that?"
"Like to fuck the shit out of you," I whispered.
"Don't push me," she said cruelly, her eyes narrowing.
"I loathe you," I whispered, "you little bitch."
"Remember," the handler said pushing me towards the ring. "On your hands and knees always, and no hitting."
"The fact was, I felt better than I had in years and years."
"I had dark, strange sexual feelings when I was very little."
"Sex has got to be the only pleasure you have."
"I feel like a goddamned female impersonator and I like to watch them."
"It's all about flowers blooming in cracks; it's about life being unable to crush out life."
"Don't tell me I'm stupid. Why the hell can't a man argue with a woman without telling her she's stupid?"
"I wanted to get drunk again, but I didn't. These moments with her were too extraordinary."
"If we can work out our violent feelings within bedroom walls where no one is hurt—no one really frightened, no one unwilling—then we just might be able after all to save the world."
"You stick with me, Bonnie," I said. "And I swear, you'll never be cold again."
"It was like any moment something could happen. Very important something either good or bad."
"I had everything from the earth I had wanted."
"I thought that was a great idea, and we hadn't even tapped Kerouac's On the Road, my favorite of all the books, which to my amazement she'd never read."
"I love you. Just like I told you last night."
"I thought I understood what you were asking," I said. "Nevertheless I'm amazed."
"Like if we started to talk about ourselves again it would have to go a step further and we could not go that step."
"The whole bloody lineage that embraces violence since time immemorial."