“
A Dom never takes away. He only builds.
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Delaine Moore (The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom)
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His lips were smooth and strong, and his tongue stroked mine with a passion and yearning that curled my toes. And we weren’t dom and sub; we weren’t master and servant; we weren’t even man and woman. We were lovers...
”
”
Tara Sue Me (The Submissive (Submissive, #1))
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A good Dom knows what their sub's pain tolerance is, their likes and dislikes, and won't go beyond what their sub can handle.
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B.S.M. Stoneking (Capture's Temperance)
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Let me put this as plainly as I can. Me, Dom. You, sub.
”
”
Lexi Blake (The Dom Who Loved Me (Masters and Mercenaries, #1))
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Master Nolan - “When a Dom takes control, leaving no choices for the sub, he has to see to all her needs, not just sexual, but emotional and physical also. If your Dom doesn't do that, then you find a new Dom.
”
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Cherise Sinclair (Breaking Free (Masters of the Shadowlands, #3))
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Master Nolan - "Being angry at a sub because a scene goes bad or you don’t get the response you want isn’t the mark of a good Dom. And insulting a woman for any reason is the mark of an asshole.
”
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Cherise Sinclair (Breaking Free (Masters of the Shadowlands, #3))
“
This collar has a lot of meanings. Some Doms will use it for a training collar. That’s not necessarily what I want you to wear it for. I want you to wear it because I own this collar and the beautiful kitten wearing it. It shows you are taken, that you are my property, and you are off limits. It also represents that I’m off the market.”
“Depending on the Dom and sub, it could also be used in the place of an engagement ring or a wedding ring.
”
”
B.S.M. Stoneking (Capture's Temperance)
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A true Master is not a man, or in some cases a woman, that likes to fuck hard or control. People like that are asses. It's also illegal and called abuse. A proper Dom is a person that, no matter what will be there for you. Not just sexually, but emotionally and physically. He's not a sub's abuser, but her ultimate comforter. Likewise, with a sub, she has an inner need to please her Master. No matter where they are or what they are doing, the simple tone of his voice makes her body alert and willing to obey his every wish.
”
”
Tiffany Danielle (Candy Cane)
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There was nothing more powerful. Not one thing better to boost a Dom’s ego than being a sub’s everything. He’d asked her for everything, but this wasn’t the same thing at all. In this case he was the need in a literal sense and damn, it was empowering. Scintillating. Dangerous because now that he’d got his first taste of it, he wanted more.
”
”
Riley Murphy (Requested Surrender (Trust in Me, #4))
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He knew Doms who never sucked off their subs, claiming that it upset the power dynamic too much, tangled the lines drawn. To his mind, that was nonsense. He was in complete control here, just like he would be when it was Sterling's mouth on his cock, fervent, worshipful, obedient. Hell, if he ever wanted to, he could order Sterling to spank him and still be clearly, unmistakably, the one calling the shots
”
”
Jane Davitt (Bound and Determined)
“
Are you a Dominant, Sir?”
“Yes.” A smile played at his lips. Hearing her call him that would never get old.
“And I’m a submissive?”
“Absolutely,” Law whispered in her ear. “You’re the sweetest little sub I’ve ever seen.”
A grin curled her mouth up. “So I call you my Doms?”
“Yes, pet.”
Her smile widened until she looked as if she was trying to keep a straight face. “You’re Dominic, the Dom.”
He sighed. “Yes, pet. I think I was aptly named.”
“You’re Dom Dominic.”
“While true, that’s not exactly how you should phrase it.” He frowned.
“You’re Dom Dom.” The smile zipped across her face. “I get to call you Dom Dom.
”
”
Shayla Black (Their Virgin Hostage (Masters of Ménage, #5))
“
Suddenly, I realised that I had chosen this...I wanted him...I realised how much I truly wanted to please him in every way that I could...And for the first time, I realised that I wanted to be Dane's 'housewife' while he was my provider and protector.
In that kitchen on that morning was the last time that I ever doubted the role that I was to play...
"Homecoming
”
”
Keegan Kennedy
“
There’s no right or wrong way to be a Dom or a sub. There are safe and unsafe ways, and there are right and wrong for certain scenes. But there’s no right or wrong way for you to be submissive.
”
”
Nora Phoenix
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She didn't think in terms of "dom" being capitalized and "sub" being lowercase. To Erin, D/s wasn't about one person being worthy of a capital letter and the other not. It wasn't about unequal worth; it was about two equals sharing power, sharing sex and emotion. She didn't submit to him because she wanted to be debased or harmed, because she needed to be lesser than anyone. She was aware some people got off on that, and hey, whatever floats your boat. But when he dominated her, she felt cherished and adored, cosseted in those cherished moments between them-in a way she never achieved with anyone else.
”
”
Lauren Dane (Laid Bare (Brown Family, #1))
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Tara! I told you to call me Tara! Oh my God, you suck at subbing. You're going to lose points for us. Please do as you're told!
”
”
Lucian Bane (Dom Wars: Round 1 & 2 (Dom Wars, #1-2))
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Rio chuckled. “Are there Doms and subs on Ariel?”
Nella blinked up at him. “I really have no idea. I don’t think we’ve done a survey.
”
”
Allyson James (Rio (Tales of the Shareem, #2))
“
I can’t wait too long to have you.
”
”
Ellis O. Day (His Sub (The Dom's Submission #1))
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My dearest Elle, I vow to love you as you deserve, protect you from those who seek to harm, and nurture you for all my days on this earth, as long as air fills my lungs. I vow, not just as your husband, but as your Dom, to worship you with every fiber of my being, my sweet sub, to free you from your emotional cage and help you discover the woman you are destined to become. I vow to be everything you need, friend, lover, mentor, keeper of your mind, body, and soul. I vow my life and everything I am to you, my world.
”
”
Lena Black (A Dominant Fallen (Dominant, #2))
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Doms always want control, Sean. Always. It's WHY he wants that control that matters. In this specific power exchange, the outcome is priceless. Why? Because there are very few things a sub can surrender that are more profoundly intimate than release. To have that kind of power, dictating exactly when another can come....It's its own kind of high, Sean. Its own kind of rush.
”
”
Kora Knight (Unearthed (The Dungeon Black Duology, #1))
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I went into the experience with the notion that I was merely going to get a taste of a deviant lifestyle. The Dom was charismatic and the kinky sex might be good if I could get past the whipping part, because there was no way I would ever think that was fun. I believed I could never be truly submissive or enjoy pain. I was so very wrong
My life changed forever. The connection between Dom and sub is one of the closest relationships two people can have. Give and take became more than words. They became the basis of my existence. My body is no longer my own. He has access to everything I am— privacy does not exist, but when he looks at me it's with love. There is no fear and no shame because I am safe. I will always be safe with him.
As my Master will be safe with me.
”
”
Debra Varva (New Leather)
“
If you want different things, how is communicating going to help?” I ask. She shrugs. “Because we all want the same thing—to feel safe, satisfied, and seen. We just take different roads to get there. If my friend’s wife loves pain and wants it, then is he really hurting her, or is he just giving her exactly what she wants? If a submissive’s only desire is to please their Dom, then who is really in control if the sub is getting exactly what they want?
”
”
Sara Cate (Madame (Salacious Players' Club, #6))
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I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playmates up with jump ropes and spriting them away to my faux castle on the playground. I wrestled my friends to the ground in bursts of emotion, or punctuated kisses on the cheek with a sharp nip. It didn't help that I had absolutely no interest in pursuing companionship with boys in the same way I did girls, no matter how many limpid first dates I went on.
”
”
S.T. Gibson (An Education in Malice)
“
Dear Jon,
A real Dear Jon letter, how perfect is that?! Who knew you’d get dumped twice in the same amount of months. See, I’m one paragraph in and I’ve already fucked this.
I’m writing this because I can’t say any of this to you face-to-face. I’ve spent the last few months questioning a lot of my friendships and wondering what their purpose is, if not to work through big emotional things together. But I now realize: I don’t want that. And I know you’ve all been there for me in other ways. Maybe not in the literal sense, but I know you all would have done anything to fix me other than listening to me talk and allowing me to be sad without solutions. And now I am writing this letter rather than picking up the phone and talking to you because, despite every thing I know, I just don’t want to, and I don’t think you want me to either.
I lost my mind when Jen broke up with me. I’m pretty sure it’s been the subject of a few of your WhatsApp conversations and more power to you, because I would need to vent about me if I’d been friends with me for the last six months. I don’t want it to have been in vain, and I wanted to tell you what I’ve learnt.
If you do a high-fat, high-protein, low-carb diet and join a gym, it will be a good distraction for a while and you will lose fat and gain muscle, but you will run out of steam and eat normally again and put all the weight back on. So maybe don’t bother. Drunkenness is another idea. I was in blackout for most of the first two months and I think that’s fine, it got me through the evenings (and the occasional afternoon). You’ll have to do a lot of it on your own, though, because no one is free to meet up any more. I think that’s fine for a bit. It was for me until someone walked past me drinking from a whisky miniature while I waited for a night bus, put five quid in my hand and told me to keep warm. You’re the only person I’ve ever told this story.
None of your mates will be excited that you’re single again. I’m probably your only single mate and even I’m not that excited. Generally the experience of being single at thirty-five will feel different to any other time you’ve been single and that’s no bad thing.
When your ex moves on, you might become obsessed with the bloke in a way that is almost sexual. Don’t worry, you don’t want to fuck him, even though it will feel a bit like you do sometimes.
If you open up to me or one of the other boys, it will feel good in the moment and then you’ll get an emotional hangover the next day. You’ll wish you could take it all back. You may even feel like we’ve enjoyed seeing you so low. Or that we feel smug because we’re winning at something and you’re losing. Remember that none of us feel that.
You may become obsessed with working out why exactly she broke up with you and you are likely to go fully, fully nuts in your bid to find a satisfying answer. I can save you a lot of time by letting you know that you may well never work it out. And even if you did work it out, what’s the purpose of it? Soon enough, some girl is going to be crazy about you for some undefinable reason and you’re not going to be interested in her for some undefinable reason. It’s all so random and unfair – the people we want to be with don’t want to be with us and the people who want to be with us are not the people we want to be with.
Really, the thing that’s going to hurt a lot is the fact that someone doesn’t want to be with you any more. Feeling the absence of someone’s company and the absence of their love are two different things. I wish I’d known that earlier. I wish I’d known that it isn’t anybody’s job to stay in a relationship they don’t want to be in just so someone else doesn’t feel bad about themselves.
Anyway. That’s all. You’re going to be okay, mate.
Andy
”
”
Dolly Alderton (Good Material)
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You told her she should dump her Dom for you. But any real fucking Dom would know never to approach a sub to undermine their Dom. By the way, take your fucking hands off of her,” he asserts, stepping closer to the man.
”
”
Tiffany Patterson (My Storm (Bennett Brothers, #2))
“
Cross wasn't being domineering, telling what to do or treating me like a child, all of the things that I'd always associated with those sorts of relationships. When Juliette told me Cross was a Dom like her, I'd assumed those things applied to him even more. But it wasn't like that. He was asking me to let him be in charge, not just taking what he wanted. He was treating me as an equal, but an equal he wanted to protect.
”
”
M.S. Parker (The Billionaire's Sub (Billionaire's Sub, #1))
“
That, little one, is true Dominance/submission. Not what Bradford did to you. The sub trusts her Dom enough to give him her power. The Dom takes the power the sub gives him and uses it to give her extreme pleasure. Submission is always freely given, never forced. Forced submission is abuse.” Charlie’s
”
”
Julie Shelton (Passion's Hope (The Doms of Passion Lake #3))
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In an ideal world, no one would need a therapy. In this world, many people did but didn’t get it for a variety of reasons. Liam believed some of them turned to the world of doms and subs.
”
”
Jane Davitt (Room at the Top (Room at the Top, #1))
“
Bătrânii sumbri-s strânşi la sfat
În jurul sfintei adultere,
Găsită, noaptea, în alt pat,
Pierdută-n somn şi-n mângâiere.
Dom colosal de matostat,
Vagi catifeluri în unghere:
Bătrânii sumbri-s strânşi la sfat
În jurul sfintei adultere.
Ea mai dormea zâmbind ciudat,
Adusă-n perini, de mânere,
Şi, mult, sub bolţi au aşteptat
Să-şi facă somnul, în tăcere,
Bătrânii sumbri strânşi la sfat.
”
”
Leonid Dimov
“
He was known for being a bit more hardcore in his play than the other Doms. Hell, some of the subs called him Dexter—the undercover sadist. He wasn’t undercover, damn it. He put that shit right out there.
”
”
Lexi Blake (From Sanctum with Love (Masters and Mercenaries, #10))
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My rules adjust according to the submissive. No two are the same and a relationship between a Dom and a sub should be personal. For example, one sub might agree to being bound and publicly humiliated...and another might not. I will hear your Rules and questions and concerns first before I decide where to go from here.
”
”
M.C Smothers
“
The sub has the power. The dom has the control.
”
”
Charlie Nottingham (Raven's Song (Raven's Cry, #2))
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If I had been thinking, I would have stopped. A dom should never, ever have an ounce of anger in his heart when spanking a sub. That wasn’t fun. That wasn’t all right.
”
”
C.D. Reiss (Control Burn Resist (Songs of Submission, #4-6))
“
I don’t usually bother with subs over size eight but I might make an exception for you if you’re fit.’ Deleted. Ten dom bottles hanging on the wall. ‘Suck my cock, bitch.’ And if one dom bottle should accidentally fall…
”
”
Justine Elyot (Meeting Her Match)
“
I'm a Dom over subs. You have subs?" I shrugged a shoulder. "Are you available?" "Oh fuck!" He literally giggled, like he couldn't believe his good fortune cookies.
”
”
Lucian Bane (Dom Wars: Round 1 & 2 (Dom Wars, #1-2))
“
It was consent. You want to call it rape? Fine. I’m going to call it a Dom taking his sub the way she realized she liked it—rough. You want to say you beat me? Fine. Remember it however you want to. I’m going to choose to remember it as a discipline you needed to give me to drive home a point. And let me tell you, Dan, yes, I was frightened while I was there—but never of you. In fact, with you, I felt more alive than I’ve ever felt in my life.
”
”
Sophie Kisker (A Captive of Fear and Desire)
“
He was polite, let me set the limits, and gave me snacks afterward."
"Aww, snack doms are the best!
”
”
J.A. Rock (The Subs Club (The Subs Club, #1))
“
These people are committed to one person. They are Master's and slaves, or Doms and subs who don't share
”
”
B.S.M. Stoneking (Capture's Temperance)
“
But any good Dom knows his sub will push him away when she’s feeling backed into a corner and hurt. Mack should know better,
”
”
Lori King (Primal Surrender (The Surrender Trilogy, #3))
“
But what difference does it make? If you want different things, how is communicating going to help?” I ask. She shrugs. “Because we all want the same thing—to feel safe, satisfied, and seen. We just take different roads to get there. If my friend’s wife loves pain and wants it, then is he really hurting her, or is he just giving her exactly what she wants? If a submissive’s only desire is to please their Dom, then who is really in control if the sub is getting exactly what they want? These are all just dynamics that exist here in this club and out in the real world. We’re all after the same thing, but sometimes we have to get a little creative with how we work with those around us to get it.
”
”
Sara Cate (Madame (Salacious Players' Club, #6))
“
Years before I met you, a friend introduced me to kink. She showed me shibari models online, and I thought I would very much like to feel the sharp of my teeth against their flesh. I wanted someone both to tie up and to tie me up. Then I met a woman who was a live-in sub for a dom couple. Her name was Lily—she was a switch. Every fall, she went to a leather and kink festival. I don’t know what I’m doing, I said. It’s okay, I’ll show you, she said. We hung the set of rules in her bedroom and recited them into each other’s mouths. It was a beautiful initiation. Every time we went out to the bar, her goal was to make me jealous with other women; my goal was to hide my jealousy, to avoid interfering with her flirtations. If I pulled her away from a conversation, to kiss her, to bite her, to mark my territory, I would be punished later, which I frequently was. I lived for the sting of the flogger, the rip from and return to my body. I felt good as long as I knew what was expected of me. Within the realm of kink, I felt unstoppable and invincible, like a teenager drag racing on an icy road. Outside of it, though, responsibility felt wrong, heavy—something I couldn’t wait to dispose
”
”
Marisa Crane (I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself)
“
Another example of highly compatible Core Desires is someone who wants to dominate getting together with someone who wants to feel pleasing or punished. Some dominants get off on the idea that their sub is there to follow their every whim, and a person who wants to feel like they are pleasing will want to do it right for their dom. Other dominants like the idea of taking their submissive to task and some subs want to feel like they are naughty and in need of punishment, thus making them highly compatible.
”
”
Danielle Harel (Coming Together: Embracing your Core Desires for Sexual Fulfillment and Long-Term Compatibility)
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ancient tradition was a sacred ceremony. A ritual that binds a Dom and a sub. For the submissive it was an honour. I should know. I’d knelt on these very blocks for Master Colton. For the Dominant, it was a privilege, almost like gaining rank. Like when I claimed Levin on these same blocks. A privilege like no other. But at its most base level, it was the exchanging of gifts. Hunter’s gift to me was his submission. In return, he was receiving the domination he craved in a safe, structured, and protected environment. His every wish would be met; his every need, every desire. He’d want for nothing. I would make sure of it.
”
”
N.R. Walker (Sir)
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Marcus had pushed Gabi on her knees. Kim stared at him. This wasn’t the ever so polite Southerner she’d stayed with. His blue eyes were icy as he told Gabi her diversion had caused his beer to get warm, and that was simply unacceptable. “Your beer got warm?” Scowling up at her dom, Gabi pushed her hair out of her eyes. “God, you’re uptight. Did the aliens maybe forget to remove your anal probe?” “That does it.” He grabbed her hair and pushed her toward the cockpit. Kim grinned. The pampered doms wanted a comfortable bench to sit on to punish their subs.
”
”
Cherise Sinclair (To Command and Collar (Masters of the Shadowlands, #6))
“
When people say they don’t have a choice, they’re lying. Of course you have a choice. The consequences of the alternatives aren’t acceptable to you, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have a choice. You can still choose to walk away and not be a Dom. You can opt to train at Sub Zero. Move somewhere else and find a club there.
”
”
Nora Phoenix (No Surrender (No Regrets, #1))
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In a Dom and sub relationship, the sub has the most control. She can stop it whenever she wants. It doesn’t matter what the Dom does or how much he wants her. “She uses her safe word, and that’s it.
”
”
M.S. Parker (Serving the Mogul (Serving Him))
“
the heart of what we do, what I crave as a dominant, is this. This connection, a simple moment when my sub responds to me in this way. When she trusts herself to me, allows me to control even something so basic as her own fear.
”
”
Violet James (His to Teach (Club Wyld Doms, #2))
“
You can use the club safeword, red light, if you feel it’s absolutely necessary. But I would caution you to be very careful about that. Safewords aren’t a way to get out of something that might be pushing your envelope. They are only to be used when the Dom just isn’t getting your cues, and failure to stop the scene will result in harm to you. We have had the occasional case of a sub using her safeword just to get out of something she didn’t want to do. That behavior is grounds for punishment.
”
”
Claire Thompson (Masters Club Box Set (Masters Club Series))
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If they can’t respect my limits, then I don’t need them in my life. How you choose to practice is no one else’s business but yours and your partner’s. The idea of a perfect Dom or sub is bullshit. We’re all people with flaws, insecurities, and baggage. Discipline, in most power exchange relationships, is not about the pain itself but about correcting behavior and showing you care enough to want to correct them.
”
”
Izaia Winter (Caring for Little Ollie (Different Hearts, #1))
“
Discipline is a trust issue between a Dom and a sub. We do not have that trust between us. To have to perform a scene, a punishment scene like that, was extremely unpleasant. It bothered me to see you hurt, Jessica,” he growled. “You will let me hold you and offer me some comfort in return.
”
”
Cherise Sinclair (Club Shadowlands (Masters of the Shadowlands, #1))
“
I must want the Sub, and just as importantly, she must want me as her Dom. Because really, and this is what those boys fail to realise, all the power is in her hands. She chooses to submit. She chooses to let go. She chooses to accept instructions. She chooses to play.
”
”
Zachary Phillips (KINK: Volume 1 (Erotic Poetry & Fiction by Zachary Phillips))
“
Every good Dom was a sub at one time.
”
”
E.M. Denning (The Desires Series: Boxed Set)
“
Look, I like you. I haven’t made any secret of that. This was fun tonight, but I don’t want to be here if I’m not wanted.”
“I believe there was ample evidence of the fact that you’re wanted earlier.”
She shrugs. “That was awesome, but since then, you’ve been kinda…bitchy.”
… “Bitchy?” I ask in my most sinister tone, the one that has no effect whatsoever on her.
She looks me dead in the eye, fearless and gorgeous. “Yep.”
“Telling a Dom he’s bitchy can get a little sub in a lot of trouble.”
“What kind of trouble?” she asks, her eyes glittering with excitement.
”
”
Marie Force (Outrageous (Quantum, #7))
“
Kate, a vanilla man will never give you what you really need and you'll end up feeling unloved and insecure, unable to respond the way you could with a Dom. A vanilla woman can't give a Dom what he needs. He feels as if he can't be himself during sex, frustrated that he can't take control, make things right – better. Doms and subs. We need each other. It's beautiful when it works out.
”
”
S.E. Lund (The Agreement (Unrestrained, #1))
“
Every relationship is different. Some subs—like Tink—are brats. They get off on pushing against the boundaries and breaking the rules and mouthing off. The Doms they partner with usually also get off on that sort of thing. That’s not how I operate. It makes me uncomfortable to act out like that.
”
”
Katee Robert (Learn My Lesson (Wicked Villains, #2))