“So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...”
“And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us.”
“He tried to stand perfectly still and relinquish control, so she could do whatever she wanted with him, and he just about cried.She felt so amazing wrapped around him. Strange and yet familiar. Brilliant. Too vibrant and frightening to explore with anything other than his body.”
“She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.”
“He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.”
“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new.”