- Author: [[Nikki Gemmell]] - Full Title: The Bride Stripped Bare - Tags:: books [[inbox]] - ### Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[2020-09-03]] - 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))