“Kristen is a woman of considerable steeliness and authority. She manages a department at work, she earns more than her lover, she is confident and a leader. She has known from a young age that she must be able to take care of herself. However, in bed with Rabih, she now discovers that she'd like to…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings--appreciation, tenderness, gratitude, and surrender--into a physical act.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“She apologized with you in her mouth, hot and hungry and holding back tears.”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“You made love like a romance novel, begging her with your body not to go.”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“I wanted to tell him I cared too much. What I didn’t care about was picking up a guy for a night. Maybe I was going through a phase, but love for a night wasn’t love, and taking a stranger to bed wasn’t any different than buying a lottery ticket. Did you really expect to win?”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, narrativemagazine.com