Alex Duke

“You're in love with my mind/But sometimes, sweetheart, a woman needs a man who loves her ass.”
― Sandra Cisnero

“The women at Dachau knew they were about to be gassed when they pushed back the Nazi guard who wanted to die with them, saying he must live. And sang for a little while after the doors closed.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems

“In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.
All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the same time so calmly aristocratic that I should never be able to approach her.”
― John Fowles, The Magus