我们一直将性爱与知识上的爱隔离开来，所以您要么纯洁而善良，就像纳斯林的叔叔所说的那样，要么肮脏而有趣。对我们来说，陌生的是爱神，真实的性感。
(We had always segregated sex from feeling and from intellectual love, so you were either pure and virtuous, as Nassrin's uncle had said, or dirty and fun. What was alien to us was eros, true sensuality.)