# The Bride Stripped Bare  Author:: Nikki Gemmell ## Highlights > A honeymoon. A foreign land. There you are, succumbing to the sexual ritual and remembering the day as a seven-year-old when you discovered water. ([Location 116](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=116)) > As for the first time you fucked, well, you remember the sound, as his fingers readied you between your legs, not much else. Not even a name now. ([Location 121](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=121)) > Sometimes he clamps your hand like it’s caught in a trap and when you drag it away he clutches it tight and it becomes a game to disentangle yourself. But only you’re giggling, in the close dark. ([Location 161](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=161)) > he’s loud with his want, it’s almost a petulance, like a boy’s. ([Location 169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=169)) > you’re remembering walking down the aisle and looking ahead to him and your heart swelling with love like an old dried sponge that’s been dropped into a bath. ([Location 217](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=217)) > All these little gestures force you into kindness too, kindness begets kindness, the marriage is almost a competition of kindness. ([Location 462](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=462)) > But it’s a relief, to be honest, this surrendering of the feminist wariness. It feels naughty and delicious and indulgent, like wearing a bit of fur. ([Location 469](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=469)) --- Title: The Bride Stripped Bare Author: Nikki Gemmell Tags: readwise, books date: 2024-01-30 --- # The Bride Stripped Bare  Author:: Nikki Gemmell ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > A honeymoon. A foreign land. There you are, succumbing to the sexual ritual and remembering the day as a seven-year-old when you discovered water. ([Location 116](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=116)) > As for the first time you fucked, well, you remember the sound, as his fingers readied you between your legs, not much else. Not even a name now. ([Location 121](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=121)) > Sometimes he clamps your hand like it’s caught in a trap and when you drag it away he clutches it tight and it becomes a game to disentangle yourself. But only you’re giggling, in the close dark. ([Location 161](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=161)) > he’s loud with his want, it’s almost a petulance, like a boy’s. ([Location 169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=169)) > you’re remembering walking down the aisle and looking ahead to him and your heart swelling with love like an old dried sponge that’s been dropped into a bath. ([Location 217](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=217)) > All these little gestures force you into kindness too, kindness begets kindness, the marriage is almost a competition of kindness. ([Location 462](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=462)) > But it’s a relief, to be honest, this surrendering of the feminist wariness. It feels naughty and delicious and indulgent, like wearing a bit of fur. ([Location 469](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJQ4S8&location=469))