In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its dystopic vision as erotica now, at the time, Naked Lunch was my first foray into consuming smut. It was because of Burroughs that I knew about the particular musk that blooms when a rectum is penetrated, and that death-by-hanging produces spontaneous trouser tents. The first Burroughs I read was Naked Lunch, but I buried myself in a few of his stories, and thus the arc of my recollection is just as non-linear as his narrative.
Peter DubéTags: books youth literature queer homosexuality coming-of-age erotica william-s-burroughs
Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that...
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: beauty youth ageing gloria-gilbert
The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAll the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight.
Thomas HardyNot pretty exactly, but gleaming with the loveliness of youth.
Juliet BlackwellTags: youth pretty gleam loveliness
such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.
William ShakespeareTags: liberty shakespeare youth hamlet polonius wanton
Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!
Théophile ThoréTags: inspiration carpe-diem youth action regret
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
Evelyn WaughNoorus tähendab valmisolekut minna ja ära tuua kõik õnneks vajalik.
Kati MurutarTags: life happiness youth youth-age
I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed.
Stewart O'NanTags: growing-up family home youth relationships mothers aging daughters arguments fights coming-home
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