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Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids

Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids
– Diana Gabaldon

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  1. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
  2. You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it’s better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones. – Diana Gabaldon
  3. Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. – Diana Gabaldon
  4. Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. – JacquesYves Cousteau
  5. Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange. – Julian Barnes
  6. 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
  7. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. – Diana Gabaldon
  8. Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. – Diana Gabaldon
  9. It’s always better if they see. Then they don’t imagine things. So I didn’t imagine, I remembered. – Diana Gabaldon
  10. You’re beautiful to me, Jamie,- I said softly, at last. -œSo beautiful, you break my heart. – Diana Gabaldon
  11. If you can’t look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it’s there-”take it out or change it. – Diana Gabaldon
  12. As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. – Diana Gabaldon
  13. Don’t let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there’s something to say. – Diana Gabaldon
  14. Dialogue doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage. – Diana Gabaldon
  15. If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. – Diana Gabaldon
  16. Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. – Diana Gabaldon
  17. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. – Diana Gabaldon
  18. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. – Diana Gabaldon
  19. I’ve seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can. – Diana Gabaldon
  20. True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled – yet there’s that in a man that is never destroyed. – Diana Gabaldon
  21. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. – Diana Gabaldon
  22. The law’s a necessary evil–we canna be doing without it–but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience? – Diana Gabaldon
  23. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? – Diana Gabaldon
  24. Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty. – Diana Gabaldon
  25. Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. ‘The grave’s a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace. – Diana Gabaldon
  26. I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself. – Diana Gabaldon
  27. …knowing what o’clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances. – Diana Gabaldon
  28. At the best of times, Father Bain’s face resembled a clenched fist. – Diana Gabaldon
  29. The hotness of a sex scene lies in the loins of the beholder. – JLeigh Hunter
  30. Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business. – Peter inson
  31. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
  32. Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex. – Bryan Lee OMalley
  33. Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. – Laurell K Hamilton
  34. After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  35. Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination. – George Eliot
  36. Your oddity is your hottest commodity but you scratch yourself like it’s the lottery to reject yourself mentally, spiritually & bodily. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
  37. Your oddity is your hottest commodity but you scratch yourself like it’s the lottery to reject yourself mentally, spiritually & bodily. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
  38. …a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one’s bodily life. – Wendell Berry
  39. I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life. – Chris Cannon
  40. Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God. – Matt Chandler

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