"But why was monogamy the ultimate trust fall? The standard was prissy, puritanical. Simone, an intellectual, knew that sex was not love. Sex could be checkers. Sex was often golf."

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Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian

 

"There's a sameness to the days which accelerates their passing, and a sameness in the pattern of memories that makes them unbearable even as they must be visited again and again."

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What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

 

"The smoke caressed his long-chastened palate, the familiar fragrance tickling his nose, overpowering his brain, soothing his ancient, torpid blood and stirring long-forgotten sensations within him. What did he care for the chatter that surrounded him? For constitutional law, for Viennese intrigues, for Dreyfus or Labori? He leaned back into his chair and began digesting."

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Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi

 

"In other words, the tragedy of heterosexuality is about men's control of women, but it also about straight women's and men's shared romantic and erotic attachment to an unequal gender binary, or to the heteroerotic fantasy of binary, biologically determined, and naturally hierarchical gender oppositeness."

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The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward

 

"We love, we hurt, we fall apart, we change, we let go, we go on. We become unrecognizable. We stay more or less the same—small and scared. It goes forever."


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The Lover by Rebecca Sacks


 "When she has gone, though, he feels something painful and confusing."

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Flesh by David Szalay

 

"Luckily I'm not crazy enough to believe in love."

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Overstaying by Ariane Koch

 

"Our flesh is the debris of dead stars, and this is also true of the apple and its tree, of each hair on the spider's legs, and of the rock rusting on planet Mars. Each minuscule being has spokes radiating out to all creation...Having experienced and understood this marvelous congruity, man can no longer examine his surroundings merely as a surface scattered with alien objects and creatures related to him only by their usefulness."

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In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

 

"Independence was expensive—or to put it another way, freedom only came at a cost."

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Bonding by Mariel Franklin

 

"Love, when it works, can feel like such a terrifying fluke. Two people have to choose and be chosen, and, most unlikely of all, these choices must happen at roughly the same time." 

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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst

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