“He stared at me in complete puzzlement, And while Im committing incest for you is there anything else youd like? Maybe a side-order of bestiality?”

“But what if you are a smart girl in love? All because I was a book nerd didnt mean, I didnt feel, I didnt want. Shylock had cried out in excess of pain, If you prick me do I not bleed! But a book n...”

“To be a devil isn't so bad; to be a devil that can still see beauty, still remember what it was like to be in the sight of the most holy, now that was an obscenity, and that was what I was.”

“Im a virgin, okay?There was a moment of silence while I assume he was struggling to understand the connection. Then he spoke. Im not prejudiced against anyone.”

“She came downstairs like a doe stepping into a clearing on the first day of hunting season. I felt like a coward. I was lower than dirt. I had used every trick in my book to get her to come downsta...”

“One night, we somehow ended up discussing Wile E. Coyote as a paradigm for obsession. She argued that Wile E., with all the resources he wasted on gadgets, could have been living high on the hog.He...”

“Im a virgin, okay?There was a moment of silence while I assume he was struggling to understand the connection. Then he spoke. Im not prejudiced against anyone.”

“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is mean...”

“Michael, some people are just confused about their sexuality, trying to come to terms with it. There are others who are bisexual too; it doesnt mean she was trying to deceive you. She must have jus...”

“Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and littl...”

“There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.”