Quotes on Love/Sexuality
“I have loved you best in that smudgy darkness, our love scribbled on the sheets and up the walls. The generous tenderness of your hands.
You sitting, resting, head against a pillow, as I talked nonsense and stories into your chest, the conversation of your heartbeat.
A good listener, I thought.” - The poet, Louisa Reid.
“He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live.” - Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
“She would open her veins, her own body cavity, and give him her blood, her heat, her organs, if it would do the slightest good.” - Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
“And you are struggling to keep hidden that hot ball of feelings that lives in the bottom of your gut and comes out on nights/mornings like this, the one that’s made up of curves and sweet-smelling hair and girl-on-girl searches and aborted touching. And a question is rolling around your drunk brain and you wonder if you’ll ever be able to ask it. And you look at her and think, she was the prettiest girl at the party, at any party, anywhere.” - Gender Theory, Madeline Docherty
“He tasted like salt and smelled like springtime. The uncertainty and the fear gave way to something else, an urgency and a hunger. I thought of the ice cracking across a river in the warmth of the new sun, the waters surging free after a long, frozen winter. Radiant light flared behind my eyelids, a leaping exhilaration as I forgot everything in the world that wasn’t us, as I let it all disappear.” - Atalanta, Jennifer Saint
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love - I have found you. You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.” - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
“Mr Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life - if ever I thought a good thought - if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer - if ever I wished a righteous wish - I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.” - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
“He knew that gaze, heavy and warm and full of promise. It was the first spell she had ever cast on him, the one that had burrowed under his skin and enchanted him with a love he never wanted to be free of.” - Odd Spirits, S. T. Gibson
“‘You know, if I had a choice… If I could choose an ending,’ he said quietly, ‘this would be it. Here with you, your face stained by the light,’” - Panenka, Rónán Hession
“Heaven is a boy in a treehouse, with cold hands and a warm heart.” - The Grace Year, Kim Liggett