...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some core level now. He had seen her at her absolute worst, at her weakest and most insane, and he hadn't looked away. He hadn't judged and he hadn't been burned.

It was as if in the heat of her meltdown they had melted together.

This was more than emotion. It was a matter of soul.”
~ J.R. Ward - Lover Mine

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Brennan: Fetishism is a way of indulging in a sexual activity without actually engaging emotionally with the other person. You don't want that from time to time?

Booth: Yours truly, Bones. Me...sex is all about engaging. Okay? You're afraid to engage than just stay home and you know...

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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil

William Shakespeare