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“We’re all a little broken.�� Quiet. Potent. “No one goes through life with a whole heart.”
― Nalini Singh, Angels' Flight

“But it seems true. Tamlin's pet is now owned by another master.'

'You should see how I make her beg,' Rhys murmured, nudging my neck with his nose.

Keir clasped his hands behind his back, 'I assume you brought her here to make a statement.'

'You know everything I do is a statement.'

'Of course. This one, it seems, you enjoy putting in cobwebs and crowns.'

Rhys's hand paused, and I sat straighter at the tone, the disgust. And I said to Keir in a voice that belonged to another woman, 'Perhaps I'll put a leash on you.'

Rhys's approval tapped against my mental shield, the hand at my ribs now making lazy circles. 'She does enjoy playing,' he mused onto my shoulder.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Starmer has found it difficult to escape this cycle of dependence because he cannot comprehend a crucial therapeutic insight: that the subject supposed to know knows nothing. Often, an analytic breakthrough comes when the patient realises that the Other to whom she has delegated her authority (or knowledge, or desire) is illusory: an empty signifier. This revelation allows her to take responsibility for her own desire, which is thereby transformed from a conduit for the Other’s will into what Lacan calls ‘decided desire�� or ‘determined desire��. When her experience is no longer mediated by the subject supposed to know, its possibilities are expanded. Dependence is supplanted by autonomy. And that, for Lacanians, is the real meaning of adulthood, although most adults never achieve it.”
― Oliver Eagleton