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1 " Love is a country, with closed borders and a language no foreigner can speak. The only people who can understand its customs, traditions, and history are its citizens. A relationship doesn’t have to make sense to all people. It only has to make sense to two people. "
― Jillian Keenan , Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love
2 " If I could mimic the dynamic of any Shakespearean marriage, I’d choose to mimic the Macbeths—before the murder, ruthless ambition, and torturous descents into madness and death, that is. "
3 " I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker. "
4 " I believe in love at first sight, But I also believe in evolution. Love at first sight is real love, but it's an infant love. As love matures, we meet again and again, and discover new parts of our partners for the first time. I'd like to think that Rosalind and Orlando will cycle back to meet each other for the rest of their lives. "
5 " In Coriolanus, the title character describes himself as “like to a lonely dragon, that his fen makes fear’d and talk’d of more than seen.” That’s the first time lonely appeared in print. "
6 " I believe in love at first sight. But I also believe in evolution. Love at first sight is real love, but it’s an infant love. As love matures, we meet again and again, and discover new parts of our partners for the first time. I’d like to think that Rosalind and Orlando will cycle back to meet each other for the rest of their lives. "
7 " (Men have a “thing” between their legs; women have “no thing.”) "
8 " The hardest part of “coming out kinky,” if such a thing even exists, isn’t coming out to other people. Beyond sexual or romantic partners, coming out to others isn’t even necessary. The hardest part is coming out to ourselves. Many "
9 " But who says lovers only get one meet-cute? Why can’t a lifetime include many of them, as each partner meets the more intimate selves inside the other’s Russian doll? Shakespeare "
10 " Kink is a trust fall. I "
11 " Besides Shakespeare, kink was the only thing that could free me from the confines of my neurotic, self-conscious, insecure mind and release me into my body. Other "
12 " PAIN IS NOT the opposite of pleasure. The opposite of pleasure is numbness. "
13 " But things change slowly, most of all minds. "
