“Egyptian men are caught between what they like and what they want; they like the girls that their minds do not want and they want the girls that their hearts do not like.”

“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”

“...cool and nonchalant, like none of this mattered anyway. Is that what guys really wanted? Or was it just what the girls thought the guys wanted?”

“What would my first sergeant do if he came across me and another girl getting it on? He'd want pictures. He'd want to join in. He'd want me and this other girl to double-team him right then and there. On the other hand, since most heterosexual men are homophobic and sexist, most straight guys figure gay men will treat them the way they themselves treat women- that is, like sex objects. And this freaks them the fuck out.”

“Coco, however, courted consequence; she was still a girl, and she still assumed a connection between what she was doing and what she wanted and what might result.”

“What do you want from me baby girl?"~Zane”