Laura

“I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl.”
― Anne Rice

“I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.

'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat