Because that's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a 24-hour hump sesh. They don't wanna be married to you for a hundred years. They just wanna hold your hand.
A man who gets laid is a super macho. If it's a woman, she's a slut. Sexual equality.
She has become marble in becoming mire.
— You can not be so contrary.
— I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.
— Men are jerks and make you unhappy.
— No man in the world can make you happy if you weren't happy already. You have to make yourself happy. It's totally selfish to wait at home, frustrated, expecting someone else to make you happy all the time. And anyway it's normal to be unhappy. I don't run around every day saying, "Life is awesome!" Why does everyone expect to be happy all the time? Sounds nice, but what do you know about relationships? You only want sex. Think I've never had a relationship? That's why I'm alone! It's so difficult to find someone who's got it together and doesn't expect me
to make them happy. And blame me for it when they're not.
"Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them."
"I should have said that whatever they ask for they had first given to us," murmured the lad gravely. "They create love in our natures. They have a right to demand it back."
Laugh, if you like, but I wanted to take care of you, to pet you, to give you everything you wanted. I wanted to marry you and protect you and give you a free rein in anything that would make you happy. You'd had such a struggle. No one knew better than I what you'd gone through and I wanted you to stop fighting and let me fight for you. I wanted you to play, like a child--for you were a child, a brave, frightened, bullheaded child. I think you are still a child. No one but a child could be so headstrong and so insensitive.
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.
The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.