“A mind possessed by unmade books.”

“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.”

“Magic tumbled from her pretty lips and when she spoke the language of the universe the stars sighed in unison.”

“A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks.”

“Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.”

“I never understood desire until i felt your hands around my throat.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”