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"I prefer having sex with myself rather than with someone who wants something instead."

"Lovers look in the pants, they look in the eyes."

"Polygamy is about sex, whereas monogamy is about love."

"Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you've 'known' for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the 'previous' level."

"We fellowship with God when we fellowship with people."

"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."

"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."

"I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing."

"People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other."

"I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine."
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"Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear."

"There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory."

"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

"It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it."

"I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta."

"I loved these salt rivers more than I loved the sea; I loved the movement of tides more than I loved the fury of surf. Something in me was congruent with this land, something affirmed when I witnessed the startled, piping rush of shrimp or the flash of starlight on the scales of mullet. I could feel myself relax and change whenever I returned to the lowcountry and saw the vast green expanses of marsh, feminine as lace, delicate as calligraphy. The lowcountry had its own special ache and sting."

"These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart."
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