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You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

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“All I've ever wanted is to be loved. Well, to be worshiped. To be desired, madly and painfully, to the exclusion of all else. Is that so wrong?”

Desire Sex Passionate Kristen Roupenian You Know You Want This Desired Worshiped

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“For the first time, Ted imagined fucking Anna the way he (almost) fucked Rachel: cruelly, without concern for her comfort, fully acknowledging that as much as he loved her, he hated her, too.”

Sex Relationships Complicated Contradictory Love And Hate Kristen Roupenian You Know You Want This

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“Margot thought: oh, no. But the thought of what it would take to stop what she had set in motion was overwhelming; it would require an amount of tact and gentleness that she felt was impossible to summon. It wasn't that she was scared he would try to force her to do something against her will but that insisting they stop now, after everything she'd done to push this forward, would make her seem spoiled and capricious, as if she'd ordered something at a restaurant and then, once the food arrived, had changed her mind and sent it back.”

Sex Communication Consent Interpersonal Skills Kristen Roupenian You Know You Want This Cat Person

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“And she'd be panting underneath him and they'd fuck and he'd make her come so hard that afterward they would be together for the rest of their lives. It was a foolproof plan. Oh, wait. No it wasn't. It was a sexual fantasy, and he was an idiot.”

Humor Sex Fantasy Kristen Roupenian You Know You Want This

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“Still, she really did seem to be absurdly into this. It was almost existentially unsettling, that two people in such close physical proximity could be experiencing the same moment so differently.”

Sex Relationships Sad Unspoken Existential Crisis Kristen Roupenian You Know You Want This Disconnect Interpersonal Relationships

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