“Sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't m…”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“Marion smiled at him with an intensity that made her look almost cruel. I tried to smile that same way.”— Emma Cline, theparisreview.org
“We were jealous, imagining a boyfriend who wanted you so bad he broke the law. We were drifting through whole weeks, making bonfires at night, eating twenty popsicles in a row and burying the flimsy plastic wrappers all over the yard.”— Emma Cline, theparisreview.org
“That day, when Jack watched Marion in the barn as he rolled a cigarette for her, I felt a flint of heat in my insides. When he glanced at me, I turned and hunched my shoulders, trying to relieve the strain of my breasts against the borrowed fabric. I never went out in that swimsuit again.”— Emma Cline, theparisreview.org
“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“Give me lust, baby. Give me malice. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“The way to not give a shit about something is to give way more of a shit about something else.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.com
“Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt.”— Sandra Cisneros, amazon.com
“Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food”— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.com
“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I’m not going to say it was love at first sight. No, it was more like oh, hell-yes-please, I’ll have that. With a helping of right-the-fuck-now on the side.”— Kristen Callihan, amazon.com