Lust and Other Stories Quotes

“For a girl, with each boy it’s as though a petal gets plucked each time.”
― Susan Minot, Lust and Other Stories

“All day I was surrounded by earnest men with furrowed brows who read Balzac in the mail-room. The more jovial ones delivered double entendres with a wry, jaded air, not coming out from behind their desks. Sex was something other people did. Sometimes the writers swept in with an exotic air, smelling faintly of alcohol, flushed and distracted. If they noticed you the first time, they would forget the next time they came in.”
― Susan Minot, Lust and Other Stories