“She thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“When anyone escapes, my heart leaps up. Even when it’s I who am escaped from, I am half on the side of the leaver.”— Sharon Olds, amazon.com
“Men want to fix you save you or fuck you. I can’t be fixed and I don’t care to be saved.”— Jeanann Verlee, amazon.com
“To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.”— Fiona Thrust, amazon.com
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or–such is the pleasure they experience–they may never finish it. No ele…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”— Diana Gabaldon, amazon.com
“Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twe…”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”— Rumi, inhalelove.com
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”— Oscar Wilde, skeptics.stackexchange.com
“When a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”— Gabriel García Márquez, amazon.com
“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
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com