Charlotte Mendelson > Quotes

“But what she had always imagined were the two basic ingredients of happy adulthood, intellectual companionship and thrilling sex, are missing too.”
― Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad

“He glances again at the door. Would a taste of the outside world be so unwise?”
― Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad

“Books made me; they are my favourite inanimate object, my salvation and, probably, my doom.”
― Charlotte Mendelson, Rhapsody in Green: A Writer, an Obsession, a Laughably Small Excuse for a Vegetable Garden: A novelist, an obsession, a laughably small excuse for a vegetable garden

“Eye to eye, they grinned at each other like comrades, embraced swiftly goodbye, and even that was not quite a standard hug between new friends, but a joining of breast and groin and thigh, like the opposite of peeling.”
― Charlotte Mendelson, Wife

“She has never seen Priya's back. They have felt each other almost everywhere and yet the idea of an expanse of skin, of access to the joints and folds, is dumbfounding. The greatest thing of all would be nakedness.”
― Charlotte Mendelson, The Exhibitionist