65 Sex Quotes From Books That Will Turn You On

We are all fascinated by the idea of sex. We spend a lot of time reading about it, googling it, and, of course, indulging in it. However,  many of us shy away from sharing our thoughts and desires sometimes with our partners. Sex quotes from books are a great way of bonding and communicating with your partner.

When you and your partner embrace the undeniable power of sex, you make way for glorious things in your life – an unbridled expression of love in the spasm of ecstasy, the free-flowing manifestation of wild and sexy desires, cathartic release of emotions and a canvas for painting imagery of dirty sex.

Cementing a rock solid bond with your partner, while you both melt in a rhythmic dance of thrusting motions, an intoxicating hormonal rush and drowning moans is a mystical experience.

So what are you waiting for?

Continue reading erotic quotes to sway your partner off his feet and seduce him with these velvety words.

The article brings you sex quotes from books that will definitely turn you on and serve as a reminder of why you need sex and more of it. Cuddle up with your partner and savor these passionate, arousing, and sizzling sex book quotes that will inspire you to fire up the action between the sheets and heighten your sexual pleasure!

Fire up your sex life with these 65 sex book quotes while keeping a fire hydrant handy!

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65 All-Time Favorite  Sex Quotes from Books

If you are in the mood to turn your partner on and raise the bar, these 65 sex novel quotes and sexual lines from books will serve you well in reigniting the sparks.

The language of desire

Words have the power to awaken dormant feelings, arouse passions, and illuminate the unspoken mysteries of intimacy. These quotes celebrate the beauty and complexity of desire, offering a poetic glimpse into the art of longing.

• ‘No wonder people took sex so seriously, or not seriously enough at all. Sex addled your wits and stole your body. It was like being lost and found all at once.’ – Kylie Scott, Lic
• “Longed for him. Got him. Shit.” —Margaret Atwood, six-word short story
• It’s so nice/ to wake up in the morning/ all alone/ and not have to tell somebody /you love them /when you don’t love them/anymore.” —Richard Brautigan, “Love Poem“
• It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn’t even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.” —Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
• “Either you have the feeling, or you don’t.” —Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up
  
• At the same moment, the other hand softly separated her legs and began to slip up the old path it had so often traveled in darkness.
  
• “I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.” —Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
• “Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned
• “This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.” —Lorrie Moore, Like Life
• “In our deepest moments, we say the most inadequate things.” —Edna O’Brien, A Fanatic Heart
  
• ‘His body was urgent against her, and she didn’t have the heart anymore to fight… She saw his eyes, tense and brilliant, fierce, not loving. But her will had left her. A strange weight was on her limbs. She was giving way.’ – D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
• “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Sonnet XXVII“
  
• “I’m not sure which is worse, intense feeling, or the absence of it.” —Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• “I am stuffing your mouth with your/ promises and watching/ you vomit them out upon my face.” —Anne Sexton, “Killing the Love“
• “I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.” —Catherynne M. Valente, In the Cities of Coin and Spice
  

The complexity of love

Love is as tender as it is tumultuous, weaving joy and sorrow together into unforgettable moments. These quotes explore the deep emotional intricacies and contradictions of love and connection.

• ‘Their bodies had met in perfumes, in sweat, frantic to get under that thin film with a tongue or a tooth, as if they each could grip character there and during love pull it right off the body of the other.’ – Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
• “Hell, at this point, I can’t imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.” —Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
• “Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.” —Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
• “Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable you should ever part.” —Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
• “What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.” —Sylvia Plath, “The Jailer“

Love is as tender as it is tumultuous, weaving joy and sorrow together into unforgettable moments. These quotes explore the deep emotional intricacies and contradictions of love and connection.

• ‘There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection.’ – William Goldman, The Princess Bride
• “He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living with each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.” —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
  
• “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
• “Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” —Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest“
• “Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic — the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.” —George Eliot, Middlemarch
• ‘While I’ve been naked before, I’ve never been bare. Not like I am with him. I feel like he can see every bit of me, every ugly, unlovable part of me I’ve tried for years to hide away. He sees me. And he wants me anyway.’ – Brighton Walsh, Caged in Winter: A Reluctant Hearts Novel
• “You cannot save people, you can only love them.” —Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Two
• “I love you more than I hate everything else.” —Rainbow Rowell, Landline
• “License my roving hands, and let them go/Before, behind, between, above, below.” —John Donne, “To His Mistress Going to Bed”
•  “The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.” —Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
  

The passion for intimacy

Intimacy ignites a fire between lovers, creating a profound connection that is both physical and emotional. These quotes capture the sensuality and intensity of being close to someone.

• ‘Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.’ – Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Brief Lives
•  “Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean, so get yourself a little loving in between.” —Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
• “Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.” —Stephen King, The Body“Lift your hips for me, love.” —Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
• “I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.” —Neil Gaiman, American Gods
• “And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.” —Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
  
•   ‘I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.’ – A.S. Byatt, Possession
• “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• “To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that as something of a miracle.” —Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
• “Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.” —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
• “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.” —Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
• Man… Heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand… Heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like a tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there’s no stopping her.’ – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
• “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• “We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.” —Marquis de Sade, Aline et Vacour
• “…As long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn’t happened.” —Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair
• “Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.” —James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty“

The poetics of seduction

Seduction is an art where words and gestures become the palette. These quotes highlight the allure and mystery of seduction through literature’s most evocative expressions.

• Madame, I have become a whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue
• “Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.” —William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing“
• “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” —Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables“
• “He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.” —Virginia Woolf, Orlando
• “I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in.” —Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
  
• I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
• “In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”-Neil Gaimain, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
• “Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or — such is the pleasure they experience — they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.”-Paulo Coelho-Eleven Minutes
  
•  “So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”-Herman Hesse-Siddhartha
• “I want you to spend the night,” you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, “Let’s have sex,” or “Let’s go to my place,” or even “I really want you,” I’m not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.”-David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
• ‘License my roving hands, and let them go. Before, behind, between, above, below.’ – John Donne, To His Mistress Going To Bed
• “I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”- John Green, Looking for Alaska
• “I had a feeling that Pandora’s box contained the mysteries of woman’s sensuality, so different from a man’s and for which man’s language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.”Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
  
  
• “He’d noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination — but at the end of the day they’d settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”-Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
• “Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.”― Eric Jerome Dickey, Pleasure

Seduction is an art, where words and gestures become the palette. These quotes highlight the allure and mystery of seduction through literature’s most evocative expressions.

• How could anyone compare grudging acquiescence to this, the heady moment when a powerful woman trusted you enough to let herself be powerless?’ – Kit Rocha, Beyond Temptation
• “But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”-Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
• “ Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” – Oscar Wilde
• “ We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” – Tom Robbins “Jitterbug Perfume”
• Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odor, its capacity for drowning.’ – Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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Conclusion

Sex is much more than a mere act of pleasure and release.

Sex definitely makes a huge component for bonding and happiness. If you are not the one who speaks often about sex, these sexy book quotes are a great way to build and strengthen a strong sexual connection, intimacy and comfort with your partner.

Dionne Eleanor, transformational mentor  & therapist, says

Sexual turn-on is the exhilarating physical sensations ignited from sexual turn on create a sacred dance of desire and vulnerability that transcends the physical body and creates threads of passion, trust, and profound emotional intimacy between people.

These sex lines from books and sex novels quotes will hopefully help you establish the right connection and grow the intimacy be it physical or emotional over time.

Read on dirty book quotes and sex literature quotes with your partner, get seduced by these velvety words and make love, or, head for a hot, dirty sex session together!

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Rachael Pace is a noted relationship writer associated with Marriage.com. She provides inspiration, support, and empowerment in the form of motivational articles and essays. Rachael enjoys studying the evolution of loving partnerships... Read more and is passionate about writing on them. She believes that everyone should make room for love in their lives and encourages couples to work on overcoming their challenges together. Read less