wyvernfriend
Written on Jun 17, 2017
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Once I was a girl who was special.
Now I am extraordinary.
And they will never stop hunting me.
The compelling follow-up to the bestselling ULTRAVIOLET, this psychological thriller will take your breath away...
"'I know,' he said. You're gay, right?'
'No,' I said. 'I'm not sexually attracted to anyone. At all. Ever.'...
'...going out with [Brendan] made me realise that I wasn't shy or uptight about sex. I simply wasn't interested.'
What I didn't say was that by that time, I'd also found out I wasn't alone. I'd discovered a forum on the Internet that was full of people - many of them young, healthy, social, even attractive - who felt the same. They weren't against sex or trying to keep other people from having it. Some of them had even tried it, out of curiosity or to please somebody they cared about. But they personally didn't feel the need. And once I'd seen that, it had given me the courage to stop trying to change myself.' (p156-157)
'And now [Sebastian] was kissing Alison, and she was kissing him back. Not a gentle let-me-comfort-you kiss, either. It was the kind of kiss that looked like it was going to end up horizontal, and Sebastian didn't have any reservations about going there.
So obviously my apathy toward sex wasn't an Alien Thing, any more than it had been a Chip-In-The-Arm thing. It was just me.' (p302)
"'So you're never going out with anyone again?' Milo asked.
'I don't know,' I said. 'Maybe, if I met somebody who accepted me the way I am, and didn't feel cheated that I didn't want to make out with them all the time. But how likely is that? Most people our age are crazy about sex.'" (p156)