Uncivilized Quotes

“Moira Reed.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“You asked what I wanted and I just told you. If you teach me about how civilized people have sex, I’ll play along with your little game of immersing myself in this new culture. In fact, I’ll even try to behave according to your general customs if it makes you happy.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I vow to myself that I have to maintain an absolute professional distance with Zach going forward. My career is too important to risk on something that is so far outside the bounds of decency.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Dr. Moira Reed, respected anthropologist and associate professor at Northwestern University. Given an extremely generous grant from Randall Cannon, philanthropist, multi-billionaire and godfather to Zacharias Easton, in order to collect him from the Amazon and help him acclimate to life here.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Zach… do you have any questions about Randall Cannon, your godfather?”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I had even told Randall, Zach’s godfather who had arranged this entire rescue mission, that Zach may not want to return to his American roots. Randall was far more positive on that than I was, just telling me to do the best that I could.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“The man clearly did not want to leave his home with the Caraicans. After having spent eighteen years immersed in their culture… after having been adopted into their tribe and revered as a member, he had absolutely no desire to return to the States with me.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I’m on a summer break from my teaching post in the Anthropology Department at Northwestern University.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I could not deny this man anything… not the man who had raised, protected, and even given me love when my parents died. I owed him my life. I would do anything he asked. So I agreed to go.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“No, Zacharias… son not of my loins but of my heart. I am begging you to go. For me… I am begging you. Give it a year and, if you wish, you may return. But for me… give it a chance and go with this new fortune.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Paraila begged me to go, to give this opportunity a chance, and I ultimately couldn’t say no to the old man.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Father Gaul told me that I had a godfather who sent for me, and he hired this woman to be my teacher so that I could learn how to be a proper American when I return.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Her expertise was in something he called “anthropology,” and she had made it her life to study the cultures of indigenous tribes in the Amazon.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I don’t want to feel anything for this woman… my enemy… other than the anger I’m carrying for the way she has turned my life upside down. When we left the village, I was heartsick.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Her hair is a glorious mass of flame-soaked waves and her eyes the color of jungle green. She reminds me of a wild and brilliantly colored bird of the Amazon, but she moves with the grace of a jaguar. So very different from what I am used to but immensely appealing,”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Moira is my enemy, but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been looking at her the way a man looks at a woman. I have an unnatural attraction to the woman with red hair and green eyes.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“My feelings toward this flame-haired woman cause dark feelings to twist within me. I know she is not directly responsible for me leaving my home, yet I loathe her as if she were the person who came up with this insane idea. I know she is just doing her job… doing what my “godfather” asked her to do, but my contempt for her is as great as for this man named Randall Cannon. Two people that have put into effect a series of events, which led me from a peaceful and happy existence. They are simply my enemies.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“My native tongue did not languish during my years living with the Caraicans, thanks to Father Gaul’s visits over the years, as he spoke English as well as Portuguese. He not only conversed with me in English at great length, but also brought me books to learn from.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I want you to tell me what the greatest thing is you’ve learned about me so far since you took me from my home.” Taking a deep breath, I push it out with quiet force. I hate the pain and anger that is still laced in his voice over what I’ve done to him. I then admit what I know he wants to hear. “I learned that you… Zacharias Easton… are an uncivilized man.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I realized that my job to help Zach acclimate to the modern world was going to be a problem for me. I realized with utter clarity that I was completely affected by his raw sensuality… the domineering way in which he took what he wanted. It was a sinful turn on to me—the utter control and harsh dominance he asserted—which was strange because I’d always been an independent and confident lover.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“The Caraica view sex as a reward for the way that the man provides for the village. They are completely open in their sexuality, and privacy isn’t required. In fact, it’s a source of a man’s pride to make a woman submit for all to see.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“The Caraica”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Zacharias Easton.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“As an anthropologist who studied native Amazonian Indians who chose to move into the modern world, Mr. Cannon had hired me to bring Zach—which was the nickname he went by as a child—home and also to help him to acclimate to a new life there.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Randall Cannon, Zach’s godfather,”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“By the time the missionary had described these people, including a little boy of seven years old, Father Gaul knew without a doubt that the wealthy American was indeed looking for Zacharias of the Caraican Tribe.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“While there, another missionary priest came to visit him, who brought word of a wealthy businessman in the United States looking for his missionary friends, Jacob and Kristen Easton. They had mysteriously disappeared in the Amazon eighteen years ago, along with their son, Zacharias.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I think back to my expedition to the Amazon just a month ago to collect Zach… the poor, little lost boy who had lived the last eighteen years with the primitive Caraican Indian tribe. Yes, it was the day my life irrevocably changed forever.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“Zacharias Easton is teaching me about a craving I could have never imagined before I met him. Sad, little boy. Savage man from the jungle. Loner, warrior… dangerous at his core. Curious man who doesn’t belong here or there.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized

“I think my crazy denial of his order was done only to provoke him to force my submission. Because that’s more exciting to my senses than just surrendering to his words alone.”
― Sawyer Bennett, Uncivilized