“I think the truth is...you fell for a face and a body and then put the person inside you wanted to find there.”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“Two precious moments. In the vague anticipation of a woman, of possessing her — the illusion of pleasure — and in the freshly felt resentment at her loss, when you are still under the spell, in the illusion of loss. Between the two, you get the feeling nothing happens.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“She was a clinging little soul, docile and gentle. Her love was of the lily variety; but now and then it burst into flame and at such times Albinus was deluded into thinking that he had no need of any other love-mate.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com