“And yet, despite the multiplicity of times we ve done it, it is still a funny, exultant, true thing - where for a short time you turn into something else and fly; where you stop fretting and wanting, and are simply alight with joy - and all while never venturing beyond the walls of your room. And I would put our continued success down to one simple thing. At the end of every tumbling session, one of us will turn to the other and say, Thank you very much. That was very pleasant. Very pleasant indeed. My dear, I am much obliged to you. Because at the end of the day, that is the hottest sex tip of all: gratitude. That you ve found someone who wants to do that thing, with you, and no government has yet found a way to charge you VAT on it. You can set fire to the sky, and not be charged a penny. Sometimes, it s great being a human.”
“Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.”
“The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.”
“All the beatitudes manifest in the sacred-time.”
“Love is the key to heart.”
“Love is the key to the heart.”
“A loving woman finds heaven or hell On the day she is made a bride”
“A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.”
“Don’t let go of your heart-love, soul mate!”
“I love you endlessly.”
“And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).”
“Marriages last because the people in them want to be married”
“Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.”
“We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.”
“Love feeds on deception.”
“He doesn’t need a donkey,” says Ana Kuya. “He has a wife.”
“Your love awakens my spirit.”