“Gavin had thought tragedy suited her: a young Miss Havisham, wearing the moth-eaten tatters of her frayed hopes like a ravaged bride. She had thought at first that it was the chase he craved, or the thrill of conquest, but while both of those might have been true, it was her humiliation that got him off. Physical, psychological, sexual—his favorite games were the ones he played with her head.”
“The wise treat horniness like a hiccup; the foolish, like an asthma attack.”
“Our emptiness greatly exaggerates the pleasure of an orgasm, and that of being high or tipsy.”
“Just before we have sex, the question often is: To pee, or not to pee?”
“The boy moths get fooled by a smell? No, they get fooled by sex. All males do.”
“The first few times you do it, you only get graded on attendance.”
“Unprotected sex is often a subconscious attempt to commit delayed assisted suicide.”