“After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickens at slamming, and slowly you fill up with an overwhelming sadness, an elusive gaping worry. You don’t try to explain it, filled with the knowledge that it’s nothing after all, everything filling up…”— Susan Minot, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, After Sex, Sex Without Love, Hookup, Guarded Heart
“Certain nights you’d feel a certain surrender, maybe if you’d had wine. The surrender would be forgetting yourself and you’d put your nose to his neck and feel like a squirrel, safe, at rest, in a restful dream. But then you’d start to slip from that and the dark would come in and there’d be a cave.…”— Susan Minot, amazon.comTagged: Losing Yourself In Love, Surrendering To Love, Guarded Love, Darkness, Sinister Side Of Love