“Sex can kill you dead. To show a woman love is to ask for trouble…”
Peter Wolfe, quoted in Hard-Boiled Anxiety
“I like smooth shiny girls, hard-boiled and loaded with sin.”
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, quoted in Hard-Boiled Anxiety
“A good woman gives sex to get love.”
Karen Huston Karydes – Hard-Boiled Anxiety
“Surely you don’t sleep with the guy unless you know him well enough to know if he is being sensitive or heartless, right?
Fiona Wood – Wildlife
“When the lights are low and the moon-mantas are spreading their wings across the sky, and a girl’s fingers might get the urge to go plowing in the fields.”
Seanan McGuire – Every Heart a Doorway
“When he talks it looks like oral sex.”
Richard Christian Matheson – “Whatever”
“Well, hullo hormones, I thought you had laid down and died.”
MC Beaton – The Blood of an Englishman
“…turns out, if you post an ad on Craigslist saying you’re a horny girl with herpes, guys will deliver themselves to your door like they were pizza. … Pizza that lies about how big it is.”
Ferrett Steinmetz – Flex
“He’d need more than love to turn back time.”
Ferrett Steinmetz – Flex
“I knew what I needed. Simple. To love and be loved. Ambiguity was my enemy.”
Michael Moorcock – The Whispering Swarm
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