#avery

Hey, Ivashkov! Open up. " Avery argued. She kept pounding on the door and yelling, and finally, Adrian answered. His hair stuck up at odd angles, and he had dark circles under his eyes. He'd drunk twice as much as Lissa last night. "What . . . ?" He blinked. "Shouldn't you guys be in class? Oh God. I didn't sleep that much, did I? " "Let us in, " said Avery, pushing past. "We've got refugees from a fire here. " She flounced onto his couch, making herself at home while he continued staring. Lissa and Christian joined her. "Avery sprang the fire alarm, " explained Lissa. "Nice work, " said Adrian, collapsing into a fluffy chair. "But why'd you have to come here? Is this the only place that's not burning down? " Avery batted her eyelashes at him. "Aren't you happy to see us? " He eyed her speculatively for a moment. "Always happy to see you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#avery #christian-ozera #lissa-dragomir #adrian-ivashkov

You may get me to say the word, but know this, you will never truly own me. That right belongs to my real master. You may take his symbol off my hip, but there will always be a scar that reminds us both what was there. And you might take his collar off my throat, but you'll never erase his name from my soul. ↗

— Kitty Thomas

#erotica #slavery #bdsm

Sorry. Sorry. Don't hit. Bitches be scary when they hit. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#haha #hit #j-lynn #jacob #jennifer-l-armentrout

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ↗

— George Orwell

#ignorance #peace #slavery #strength #war

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#black americans #book #civil #civil rights #context

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#been #democracy #ever #institution #slavery

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#around #been #call #comes #culture

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#slavery #state #then #turn

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#man #slavery #upon #will