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“It was the season of sex, yes, but it was also, in all the vital ways, without sex itself—and isn’t that one useful definition of a happy girlhood?”

Book:Swing Time

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Swing Time

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is a British novelist known for her distinctive literary style and profound social insights. Her works cover a range of themes including race, class, gender, and identity, and have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“The fact that these young women, with their trim ankles, high cheekbones, good educations, bright eyes, little bosoms, and expensive clothes, keep coming to my bungalow and often to my bed, despite the fact that I'm old, fat, often drunk, beneath them on the social scale, and in love with a dead woman, only increases Jill's impatience with her own sex. Their foolishness drives her up the wall, and my willingness to assist them in their obvious folly is a constant bone of contention between us.”

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Book:Somebody's Darling

Source: Somebody's Darling

“Marianne pensava che l’amore, per lei, era stato una delusione. Certe carezze erano meglio… Lui l’aveva presa brutalmente, con una sorta di rancore, quasi avesse voluto saccheggiarla, appagare una misteriosa vendetta, farle male con crudeltà. […] Forse era tutto finito, oppure, al contrario, cominciava appena? Non sapeva che cosa… L’avvenire?… Felicità o infelicità…”

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Book:Due

Source: Due

“That sounds medically dangerous!”

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Book:House of Sky and Breath

Source: House of Sky and Breath

“Please have sex a little louder. I didn't hear everything that time!”

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Book:House of Sky and Breath

Source: House of Sky and Breath

“These secret service people always seemed to have time for sex however important their jobs might be.”

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Book:Moonraker

Source: Moonraker

“Give him a few days to realise our little wife isn’t as breakable as we feared,” Vidrol said, pulling out a chair on my other side. He winked at me. “Once he realises the possibilities, as I have, his mood will improve greatly.” “You’re sick,” Fjor muttered. “Terminally,”

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Book:A Castle of Ash

Source: A Castle of Ash

“What is more important than sex is maternity.”

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“According to my last two—three—maybe four boyfriends, I’m too sexually demanding. Which is such a double standard,” she said testily, old grievances making her downright mad. “First, they’re happy about it, and then it’s, ‘I have a headache, Sasha.’ Or: ‘We already did it three times today, Sasha.’ Or: ‘I think you broke me, Sasha.”

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Book:Between

Source: Between

“Itulah mengapa negeri Timur punya teramat sedikit penulis. Orang di sana terlalu bahagia dengan kehidupan sendiri hingga tak perlu memikirkan hidup orang lain. jadi apa gunanya lagi ada kecerdasan kalau semua adalah melulu soal perasaan!”

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Author:Honoré de Balzac

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