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Susan Minot Quotes

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“After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickens at slamming, and slowly you fill up with an overwhelming sadness, an elusive gaping worry. You don’t try to explain it, filled with the knowledge that it’s nothing after all, everything filling up finally and absolutely with death. After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light as air, and you . . . you don’t even ask for anything or try to say something to him because it’s obviously your own damn fault. You haven’t been able to—to what? To open your heart. You open your legs but can’t, or don’t dare anymore, to open your heart.”
— Susan Minot, 'Lust' in Lust And Other Stories
Tagged: Sadness, After Sex, Sex Without Love, Hookup, Guarded Heart, Not Letting Someone In, Sex, Sad Sexual Feels
“Certain nights you’d feel a certain surrender, maybe if you’d had wine. The surrender would be forgetting yourself and you’d put your nose to his neck and feel like a squirrel, safe, at rest, in a restful dream. But then you’d start to slip from that and the dark would come in and there’d be a cave. You make out the dim shape of the windows and feel yourself become a cave, filled absolutely with air, or with a sadness that wouldn’t stop.”
— Susan Minot, 'Lust' in Lust And Other Stories
Tagged: Losing Yourself In Love, Surrendering To Love, Guarded Love, Darkness, Sinister Side Of Love, Sadness, Broken Love
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