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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.

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

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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. Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids – Diana Gabaldon
  3. Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. – Diana Gabaldon
  4. We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren’t better. We weren’t worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius. – Mira Grant
  5. Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement. – TF Hodge
  6. …things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details. – Lesley Kagen
  7. Without an anchor, we can be drifted to any shore. May you find hope as anchor. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  8. There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood. – Girdhar Joshi
  9. I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh. – Jennifer Harrison
  10. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. – Diana Gabaldon
  11. Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. – Diana Gabaldon
  12. It’s always better if they see. Then they don’t imagine things. So I didn’t imagine, I remembered. – Diana Gabaldon
  13. You’re beautiful to me, Jamie,- I said softly, at last. -œSo beautiful, you break my heart. – Diana Gabaldon
  14. 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
  15. As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. – Diana Gabaldon
  16. Don’t let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there’s something to say. – Diana Gabaldon
  17. 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
  18. If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. – Diana Gabaldon
  19. Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. – Diana Gabaldon
  20. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. – Diana Gabaldon
  21. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. – Diana Gabaldon
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. – Diana Gabaldon
  25. 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
  26. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? – Diana Gabaldon
  27. Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty. – Diana Gabaldon
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. …knowing what o’clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances. – Diana Gabaldon
  31. At the best of times, Father Bain’s face resembled a clenched fist. – Diana Gabaldon
  32. When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a ???? scene. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  33. A man’s sexual organ is ????? and woman’s sexual organ is brains. – DK Publishing
  34. The anxiety of the sexual act is my sexual act: a love story. – Melissa Broder
  35. Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same. – bell hooks
  36. You’re sexist. I’m so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. – Gillian Flynn
  37. …there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to ???? and the desire to kill. – M Thomas Gammarino
  38. It’s just sexual tension. Hardcore, animalistic, lick his body all over, sexual tension. – Norah – Angela Richardson
  39. My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W Somerset Maugham
  40. A small tree with large roots will last longer than a large tree with small roots. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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