Jeff Lindsay Quotes

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.

Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman.

Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.

I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there.

I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship may be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better that the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life.