I’m halfway to being a father. Not 4.5 months out of 9…

...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used…

— Lisa Kleypas

Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses…

— David Nicholls

“It’s normal.” Doc grinned. “The mating ritual of all animals. The males fight for dominance over their females. Human males have lost the fight…

— Lora Leigh

“Finally he spoke. "You love them that much, 'Ene?" "They have become my people, Father." "It has been less than two months." "Love is…

— Brandon Sanderson

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

— Jean Dujardin

“Me mating with a midget is like a skyscraper having sex with a cathedral. But still I’d like to try. Just not while mass…

— Jarod Kintz

“You’ve been in the mating frenzy before.” Eric looked up at her, his eyes quiet. “Yes.” ”With Kirsten.” ”Yes.” Iona touched her hands together.…

— Jennifer Ashley

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the…

— Lewis Mumford

The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at…

— S.M. Stirling

Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes…

— Dave Barry

After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make…

— Jeremy Silman

I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!

— Ian Holloway

A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of…

— Christopher Ryan