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Angela Carter _ The Infernal Desire Machines
MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub!AMBASSADOR: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh.MINISTER: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow.AMBASSADOR: And what a beautiful definition of flesh! You know I am only substantial shadow, Minister, but if you cut me, I bleed. Touch me, I palpitate!
book-quote desire shadow flesh
Tom Stoppard _ Arcadia
Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
book-quote sex meat intercourse
V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic
-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.
book-quote maturity mountains wisdom
Dan Brown _ The Lost Symbol
The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world:
book-quote control tattoo flesh
Jim Thompson _ The Killer Inside Me
She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good.
book-quote woman lord scrawny
George Eliot _ Adam Bede
It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
book-quote pride flesh
Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
book-quote selfishness pride hypocrisy