“It was a lonely thing. There was no way to be sure if it meant the same thing to both of you. He’d forgotten that part of making love, how you couldn’t assume that intent was as joined as bodies were.”

— Pat Cadigan , book Synners

Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 234)

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