“People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female's [suspended] head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don't see the connection.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“Popular culture isn’t an innocuous force; we don’t go through adolescence—watching scenes and reading books and hearing jokes and listening to all kinds of dialogue—while wearing an invisible force field that bounces bad ideas away. We learn an awful lot of what we know from the stories we encounter.”
Source: Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
“Consent is the line between human behavior and bestiality.”
Source: The Gospel of Technology
“An impersonal sexual orientation, which is typically associated with desires for a relatively large number of sexual partners, creates a high likelihood of rejection experiences… A relatively heightened sensitivity to rejection may lead to a subjective perception of frequent rejections irrespective of the objective reality.”
Source: Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives
“I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what’s the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired and kill itself so it won’t have to listen to you anymore?”
Source: Magic Breaks
“His leg throbbed, but his heart felt lighter, and for the first time in years, the world seemed to be filled with possibility.
“I love you,” he said. And he thought to himself, That makes five. Five times he’d said it. It wasn’t nearly enough.
“And I love you.” She bent down and kissed his leg.
He touched his face and felt tears. He hadn’t realized he was crying. “I love you,” he said again.”
Source: The Sum of All Kisses
“Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience.
Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.”
Source: Keeping The Castle
“And when he kissed her . . .
All she wanted was more.
“You are so beautiful,” he murmured, and for the first time in her life, Sarah truly believed that she was.
She touched his cheek. “So are you.”
Hugh smiled down at her, a silly half grin that told her he did not believe her for one second.”
Source: The Sum of All Kisses
“I had a feeling you’d like that,” he said with a satisfied grin.
“Why do I feel it . . . everywhere?”
“Everywhere?” he murmured. His fingers moved between her legs. “Or here?”
“Everywhere,” she said breathlessly, “but there most of all.”
Source: The Sum of All Kisses
“Leef hard en goed en schoon en wild. Kijk goed, voel beter. Wees niet bang. Kies voor wat u blij maakt, wat het ook moge zijn. Durf proberen wat te lastig lijkt. Leg de lat hoog genoeg. Koester en laat u koesteren. Geef anderen wat ze verdienen, en uzelf minstens ook. Blijf hopen, willen, dromen, wensen.”
Source: Vele hemels boven de zevende