Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

I ran like a thing that runs.

Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.

I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.