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Adults are taught to be anxious about not having enough sex while teenagers are shamed for wanting to have it all the time.

Adults are taught to be anxious about not having enough sex while teenagers are shamed for wanting to have it all the time.
– Catherine Lacey

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  2. The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world. – Catherine Lacey
  3. She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just be alive beside each other. – Catherine Lacey
  4. Too many adults wish to ‘protect’ teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived. – Margaret A Edwards
  5. Sex seemed like a thing that might only happen to me at random, outside my control, like the weather. – Catherine Lacey
  6. One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. – Alan W Watts
  7. Moreover, you couldn’t get animal sex and tight leather and sex toys along with something warm and comforting and meaningful. – Lacey Alexander
  8. I felt in some ways we’d had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words… – Lily King
  9. There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. – Aristophanes
  10. Simon did not solve problems, he just shamed them into going away. – Sorin Suciu
  11. There is nothing great about having sex or ‘not having’ sex. – Daya Kudari
  12. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
  13. I talk to children like adults and to adults like children. – Bryant McGill
  14. Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. – Tim Relf
  15. Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance. – Steve Jones
  16. Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked – Kat Howard
  17. Desire is to ask for something in silence, without really wanting it, for having it wouldn’t fill you as much as having desired it. – Isabella Trainini
  18. Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell? – Catherine Lacey
  19. These men, these bitches of their boneless limbs -“ didn’t they know being a woman meant being at war? – Catherine Lacey
  20. Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share. – Catherine Lacey
  21. I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love. – Catherine Lacey
  22. I couldn’t decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world. – Catherine Lacey
  23. It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn’t in love, wasn’t in limerence, but was in some unnamed place alone. – Catherine Lacey
  24. It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream. – Catherine Lacey
  25. Lately, I couldn’t remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I’d only seen the previews to. – Catherine Lacey
  26. I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could. – Catherine Lacey
  27. None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough. – Catherine Lacey
  28. He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing. – Catherine Lacey
  29. I couldn’t blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself. – Catherine Lacey
  30. Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them. – Catherine Lacey
  31. I thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he’d like to become part of a story, any story. – Catherine Lacey
  32. All your problems and all the answers to those problems exist in the boundaries of your body. – Catherine Lacey
  33. We cannot stop wanting. Wanting is the tireless engine of life itself. – Shai Tubali
  34. Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the transfer. – Joseph Sobran
  35. Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. – Sylvia Plath
  36. Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.Wanting a man who was sin itself. – Elizabeth Hoyt
  37. It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults. – Darren Shan
  38. Just like real sex, the touching was good, but there came a point in time when a woman needed to be filled – deeply. – Lacey Alexander
  39. It wasn’t awful to be a man’s sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end. – Lacey Alexander
  40. He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal. – Jane Austen

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