"We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it."

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But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

— Bernhard Schlink