Reiss's Quotes

#1. There were too many fires to put out. Too many pieces to move across the chessboard.

C.D. Reiss

#2. his one overarching truth was always that his family was whomever he claimed.

C.D. Reiss

#3. I just kept telling myself I didn't want you, but we said no lies, and I think that includes lying to myself. How about you?

C.D. Reiss

#4. Tell me what you wish for, and if it's any part of my body, your wish will come true at the Regency Hotel in forty minutes." She'd giggled and turned her face to the sunlight. "Free, Jonathan. I wish to be free.

C.D. Reiss

#5. Because she wanted to be us." "Crazy fucking world,

C.D. Reiss

#6. When you get divorced, you don't just give up the person, you give up all the dreams you had with that person.

C.D. Reiss

#7. She couldn't get that the fucking itself wasn't degrading. The intentional degradation was degrading. And hot.

C.D. Reiss

#8. I didn't know how to exist inside my own contradictions.

C.D. Reiss

#9. Really? Jessica came back? That's amazing." "Yes, but I don't want her. I'm keeping the new one. Unexpected upside.

C.D. Reiss

#10. My brain might have been high on fuckjuice, but that didn't make me stupid.

C.D. Reiss

#11. Her enthusiasm infected me. She was light, life, energy. Everything. What wouldn't I do for her, when she gave me so much? I would have married her in an instant. So I did.

C.D. Reiss

#12. Stop smiling," I grumbled. "Can't.""Were you this irritating when we met?""I was charming. Very charming.""Where did Mr. Charming go?""That guy didn't have staying power.""But Mr. Irritating? He'll stick around?""Unfortunately.

C.D. Reiss

#13. I'm yours. My pleasure is yours. My wet pussy is yours. You own me, Jonathan. You are the master of my fuck.

C.D. Reiss

#14. But there was something about Dash Wallace that felt safe. Maybe it was the way he'd shut down all the fuck talk to hear what I had to say, or maybe it was the way he never made me feel as though he was doing me a favor by wanting me.

C.D. Reiss

#15. Come on. Text a friend and tell them who you're with in case I'm a psycho killer.

C.D. Reiss

#16. I wasn't the demonstrative type. I didn't say I love you all the time, and I wasn't girlish or giggly. I hated shopping in pairs and preferred staying home with a good romance novel than a girls' night out. But I figured sometimes you have to meet someone halfway.

C.D. Reiss

#17. 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

#18. ... and believed him despite my better judgment. I forgave him despite my misgivings. I loved him just because I did.

C.D. Reiss

#19. We'll do the sensual shit another time,

C.D. Reiss

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?

Mitchell Reiss

#23. I didn't need one so pissed at his ex-wife he'd make me fall in love with him before apologizing for leading me on. He wanted to hurt women, and nothing froze my creative juices like heartache.

C.D. Reiss

#24. What is wrong with me? How can I find pleasure from this man who is holding me against my will? What kind of sick, fucked up person am I? How can I even remotely be turned on?

C.D. Reiss

#25. Remember trust is portable. Wherever you go, it follows you: good or bad.

Bob Reiss

#26. What is your type?"
I shrugged. "Non-existent.

C.D. Reiss

#27. He took my hands, holding them between us. "Please, just do this for me. Don't ask questions." he turned my hand over and kissed my palms. "Don't ask to be hurt. Don't fight. Just love me." His voice was soft enough to turn stone to putty, and all desire to defy him left me.

C.D. Reiss

#28. Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket.

C.D. Reiss

#29. Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

Mitchell Reiss

#30. But if she loved me through it, couldn't someone else? Couldn't someone else keep a secret or ten?

C.D. Reiss

#31. Forty thousand people in the stands couldn't distract me the way the absence of one could.

C.D. Reiss

#32. Don't put me in a position where I have to defend myself against this again.

C.D. Reiss

#33. I want to be your last. I want to ruin you for other men.

C.D. Reiss

#34. It's all I want. We are bound. I can't be unfaithful to you any more than the sky can be unfaithful to the sea.

C.D. Reiss

#35. More than wanting you for myself, I want you to have a good life.

C.D. Reiss

#36. I had no words, and I always had words.

C.D. Reiss

#37. 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

#38. What mattered was the evolution of a relationship.

C.D. Reiss

#39. You've been a bitch, goddess. That's over. From now on, you step when I say walk. You eat when I feed you. You come when I allow it. If I so much as look at your knees, you get on them and open your fucking mouth.

C.D. Reiss

#40. Let's face it. You don't even understand you. The difference between us is that I happen to love you.

C.D. Reiss

#41. It is. It's all over. The system is fucked. You can't win by doing things the right way in this world. No. There is no right and wrong. There's only what you get away with and what you don't.

C.D. Reiss

#42. (Hitler responded by calling Mussolini's movement "Kosher fascism.")

Tom Reiss

#43. What did you do to your throat?"
"Jonathan's dick had been down it, but I didn't say that.

C.D. Reiss

#44. I don't know what this will make you think of me," I said.
"That any man who's with you better pay attention, or they'll find you gone.

C.D. Reiss

#45. The way his hair draped in a sideways S. Flawless and secure. A wish blown off a dry dandelion.

C.D. Reiss

#46. That's not a reason to give your life to God.

C.D. Reiss

#47. I trust you to do what's right. But it might not be the right thing." "It's the right thing.

C.D. Reiss

#48. 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

#49. For me, I will live so long as I can, however beaten, however maimed. I will do good to those who love me, and harm to those I hate, so long as my lungs draw breath.

Alter S. Reiss

#50. It's wrong to want to protect you? To keep you above my shit? A goddess?

C.D. Reiss

#51. It's no use being a qualified zoologist once you're inside the lion's mouth.

Gunnar Reiss-Andersen

#52. I want to fuck you right here, teacup." "The engraved invitation's in the mail." I raised my leg over his waist and he tucked his hand behind my knee. "It says, 'Your dick is cordially invited to come inside.'" He

C.D. Reiss

#53. It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him.

Mitchell Reiss

#54. I have the only right. I'll hurt anyone who touches what's mine.

C.D. Reiss

#55. You are a natural submissive, Monica. You enjoy being obedient. You cede control with both hands. It's exactly right.

C.D. Reiss

#56. 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

#57. My heart." It's a stupid come on, but I'm a girl. I can get away with it.

C.D. Reiss

#58. Without you, this part of myself that's open now isn't an opportunity. It's an open wound. Every time you shut down, it bleeds.

C.D. Reiss

#59. She made me safe. Safe to fail. Safe to be nothing more or less than a roofer's son from upstate New York.

C.D. Reiss

#60. Where's Vivian?" someone called from the hallway. I was pushed closer to the edge, almost caught with my underpants in my mouth and a finger in my ass. Fear buzzed and amplified the pleasure.

C.D. Reiss

#61. 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

#62. Zero is my spot in this world. And it's so appropriate to be nothing, and not all in a negative way, either. I like being nothing.

C.D. Reiss

#63. He also gives a good picture of the profound chaos unleashed in Muslim countries in 1924 by Ataturk's sudden abolition of the caliphate, an institution they had superficially not taken much notice of but which was central to a Muslim's whole identity.

Tom Reiss

#64. This sounds to me like you're telling me no ... For the sake of clarity, goddess, when it comes to me, that's not in your vocabulary. I don't hear it.

C.D. Reiss

#65. They were in that bed together for a long time, taking the sweetness of life in the shadow of death.

Alter S. Reiss

#66. Drazen's lips were more than lips; they were the physical memory of myself before I shut out sex to pursue music.

C.D. Reiss

#67. I'd have devoured those books I've come to love - the ones that have helped me reawaken my sexuality. The books that have made me realize it's okay to want more out of my sex life, to want my husband to push the envelope with me. Experiment with me. Demand more of me.

C.D. Reiss

#68. It's time for the IRA to go out of business.

Mitchell Reiss

#69. likely explanation for Elfriede's connection to Kurban Said first presented itself to me a few weeks after I visited the castle.

Tom Reiss

#70. Herr Konsul, sorry to take your time. A man's voice. The blood in Reiss' veins instantly stopped its motion.

Philip K. Dick

#71. When this ice cube melts, I'm going to make love to you so slow, everyone in this hotel is going to know my name. It won't be play. It's going to be dead serious.

C.D. Reiss

#72. 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

#73. God,' he said, 'I have to have you.'
'Take me. Own me. Use me. Pick a verb. Just please.'
'Fuck you. I'm going to fuck you. That's my verb.

C.D. Reiss

#74. What the novel portrays is basically the reality of Vienna today: one of the world's great cities robbed of its lifeblood, reduced to a bland provincial capital filled with beautiful old buildings.

Tom Reiss

#75. And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons.

Mitchell Reiss

#76. most of its existence, Mussolini's regime had not been anti-Semitic, and early on, the Duce had explicitly criticized Hitler's racism - probably in part because Nazism did not include modern Italians in its pantheon of Aryan supermen.

Tom Reiss

#77. I'm human, It's a terminal condition

C.D. Reiss

#78. Mussolini's mistress, a leading Fascist intellectual and theorist of the movement, was openly Jewish. Perhaps less well known is that the Israeli Navy was born out of a 1930s Fascist training program, and the Duce even endowed a Fascist chair at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Tom Reiss

#79. Bedroom games. That's all it is. But they're serious, and when played right, everyone wins." He

C.D. Reiss

#80. the Stefansplatz, where the largest spontaneous demonstration in Austrian history was held - to celebrate the Anschluss and Hitler's surprise tour of the city - in the spring of 1938.

Tom Reiss

#81. Give me a number between one and ten."
"Two."
"Forget that, then. Between five and ten."
"Seven."
"That's how many times you're coming before sunrise ...

C.D. Reiss

#82. I'm a fucker. It's what I do

C.D. Reiss

#83. I want to be normal." "Jesus Christ. You might as well want to be taller. Normal wasn't the hand you were dealt. You and I, we're not normal. That's not a choice we have.

C.D. Reiss

#84. eclipsed and forgotten by Mussolini's brief but disastrous alliance with Hitler.

Tom Reiss

#85. Every bargain we made was chewed over carefully before it was swallowed. Each one seemed like the best choice at the time, and yet it seemed that we swallowed enough unwholesome things to bring us down to the very edge of death.

Alter S. Reiss

#86. When I claim chastity, that's when the fantasy is most vibrant.

C.D. Reiss

#87. Amateur comes from the Latin agent amatus. To love. Never worry about love. Love delivers. It's the incompetent professionals that'll screw you.

C.D. Reiss

#88. Life was best when standing in the shadow of death.

Alter S. Reiss

#89. You are the sun I revolve around, the stars that mark me, the moon rising through me. I'm lost without you. If you won't have me, I'll break, I swear to God. I know it's selfish, and I'm sorry. Let me serve you. Have me as yours. Let me live under you.

C.D. Reiss

#90. 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

#91. The word "buccaneer" originated in a native people's term for smokehouse, which the French pronounced boucan. The original boucaniers didn't board ships and steal treasure; they were the jerky kings of the Western Hemisphere.

Tom Reiss

#92. What we have isn't something we made. It's something that existed before we even met.

C.D. Reiss

#93. Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

Mitchell Reiss

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. Because I'm human. It's human to care." "But it's not your job.

C.D. Reiss

#97. You're not using me. You're mine. You are my own personal goddess. It's my job to make sure you're happy. And if I can't make you happy, I won't feel right if you're not taken care of as best as I can. So please, tell me how many people so I can feel right.

C.D. Reiss

#98. The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

Mitchell Reiss

#99. We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

Mitchell Reiss

#100. The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

Mitchell Reiss