God, to breathe. Air. You don’t know what it means until you cannot take a breath - Alice Borchardt

He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers

You, why do you let me say such things when and where I shouldn’t?” “the problem is not ordering the course of your speech. Its shutting you up in the first place”

And then he remembered that the other function of sex is punishment – men use it to humiliate women. And since turnabout is fair play, women often use it to humiliate men