Letters of Note Quotes

“He had some sort of electrical pacemaker that was failing and there was no place in Rwanda to get it fixed. So he just... sweated it out until the end. I do admire the pluck he showed. But I can't tell you how much I miss him. He was one of those you thought you could always rely on in a time of need. I can't understand why all the good guys have to go first.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Sex

“Lying on top of you is one thing, but getting close to you is another. I feel close to you, one with you.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Sex

“Any man or woman who has anything but ice water trickling through his arteries does not want to think of sex in any terms that do not include the psychology of romance, the mystery of allurement, the excitement and adventure of discovering the unknown in the personalities of those he chooses to love.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Sex

“I believe the more we are prepared to accept sex in our lives without a distorting sense of guilt and fear, the less tragic will be any of its consequences.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Sex

“It is by the way in which sex (and under this I include warm demonstrative friendships with both sexes as well as love affairs proper with me) is linked with all the other parts of our lives. With our appreciation of music, and our tenderness for little children, and most of all with our love for someone and the additional nearness to them which expression of love gives us, that sex itself is given meaning.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Sex

“The thrills you get from touching the body of another person are just as good and legitimate thrills as those you get at the opera. Only the ones you get at the opera are all mixed up with your ideas of beauty, and music, and life. And so they seem to you good and holy things.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Sex

“You must realize that your body has been given you as an instrument of joy... you must never think it wrong of it to sing. For your body was made to sing to another's touch.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Sex

“When you return I am going to give you one literary f**kfest. That means f**king, and talking, and talking, and f**king, and a bottle of Anjou in between.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Sex