Arousal Quote by Larissa Ione

“He wasn't here to satisfy my idle curiosities. And it held its own fascinations: a man who talked like an innocent and fucked like…

— Alexis Hall

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which…

— Jean Genet

“And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow,…

— Gogol Nicolai

“First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.”

— Philip José Farmer

“But no, Potticary, poor fool, brushed his boots for love of it. He probably had a slave mentality; but had never read enough for…

— Josephine Tey

“But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.”

— Ryünosuke Akutagawa

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“What he liked about his brother, he said, is that he made people become what they didn't think they could become. He twisted something…

— Colum McCann

“It occurred to him that he'd made a habit of pissing on the shoes of very powerful beings, but he'd never been a study…

— Kevin Lucia

“his avowal of follies and excess seemed uttered rather in the spirit of wounded pride, than in that of contrition.”

— Walter Scott

“Oh he was like them, like those laced-up ladies—warm from wards. A man, he still chewed the nipple, titillation, and risked no freer, deeper…

— William H. Gass