Nicole

“Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance. ”
― Roland Barthes

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“‎"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski