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| 1 | 138 | View more quotes about suddenly">Suddenly she seemed small, and beautiful, and so vulnerable, and unutterably desirable. |
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| 1 | 135 | I wondered what might possibly be the complement in nature to these overwhelming, undeniable, persistent things within me, which had so distressed and troubled me, which now so obsessed me, which caused me such anguish, these irresistible calls and cries within me, the agonizing needs I felt, and I shuddered. |
| 1 | 136 | I looked in the mirror. |
| 1 | 137 | How brazen she was to see herself in such a garment! I wondered how she might look, so clad, or perhaps in less, to a man. |
| 1 | 138 | Suddenly she seemed small, and beautiful, and so vulnerable, and unutterably desirable. |
| 1 | 139 | I sensed then what might be the nature of the complement in nature to my needs, what might be their flower, their sea, their carnivore, and I stood there terrified, sensing the imperiousness of that complement, its power, its uncompromising ferocity, what it might be to be its object, and knowing that if it existed it would have its way and be absolutely served. |
| 1 | 140 | How pleased I was, then, that surely no such complement could exist, that I was safe. |
| 1 | 141 | I had nothing to fear. |