attracted to

• “After some careful deliberation during which Lisa says, I dont know if Im ready just yet, meaning I dont want you to stop liking me if I sleep with you and interpreted, incorrectly, by Louis as Im not sure if I am sexually attracted to you, they finally get down to it.”

  Simon & Schuster: What Men Say, What Women Hear

• “It was in this manner that Father Mauron, the late superior general, was attracted to the order.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “When the axonal nerve detects that particular molecule—known as GDNF—it is attracted to it and grows toward it.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

• “Consider the story of how Vivienne Cass, an Australian psychologist, developed her prominent model of coming out of the closet: Cass was working as a therapist for the Homosexual Counseling Service of Western Australia in the 1970s when a young woman came into her office full of self-loathing because she was attracted to another female.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Grief

• “Letting your man know you are attracted to him, and willing and eager to go thereanywherewith him is an incredible turn-on.”

  Simon & Schuster: Rinnavation

• “Clothing fashions are by no means the only class of innovations for which status-conferring considerations are a primary reason for adoption, and upper-class women are by no means the only members of a population who are attracted to status-giving innovations.”

  Simon & Schuster: Diffusion of Innovations

• “Nora had often found herself wondering whether Peter Hallett had been attracted to the flesh-and-blood Tríona that night or to her character, Hermione.”

  Simon & Schuster: FALSE MERMAID

• “If we feel sexually attracted to the same gender, we convince ourselves this uprush of inner feeling—often rooted in something gone wrong in our formative years—is actually genetic, or God-ordained, or the expression of who we “really” are.”

  Simon & Schuster: HOW EVIL WORKS

• “Women are attracted to men who are clever providersthe strongest, the fastest runners, and the ones with an MBA need apply!”

  Simon & Schuster: What Men Say, What Women Hear

• “I mean, its not that I wasnt attracted to youwe both know I wasbut I He stopped, frustrated by his own lack of focus.”

  Simon & Schuster: Paradise Lost

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