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[winhall]

I love reading, and most of all I enjoy slash/yaoi/gay literature of any kind.
And sometimes, among the vast amounts of stuff I read, there's a piece, a phrase, a sentence, something that makes me tingle, somewhere in my stomach. It means whatever I just read struck a nerve in all the right ways. Which is actually my second highest praise; the

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[winhall]

I know what you mean! You got a picture in your head and it's SO hard to get it on paper; but when it works out, it's the greatest thing ever. :)

Hm, fav quotes... one would be the one on the left in this journal, "We would be safe, because Edward was here.". It probably won't cause the tingle feeling out of context and for anyone else, but me, I'm back at that part of the book, and I know that the room was full of powerful beings and Edward was "only" a human (and a skilled assassin at that), but to Anita (the protagonist) he's reliability in a way she can relate to (it has a gun).

From Mists Of Avalon:
...; but as the first rays of the sun arose, she put back the hood, and at that moment, touched by the first sunlightm the enchantment slid off Kevin's face, and Morgaine saw startled comprehension some into his eyes, he knew where he was and what had happened.
I can't really say why this part got to me so much, but it did.

And I could quote my way through almost any page of the daviations series, these books really got to me. Like this one:
Mistakes are allowed, made up for, and forgiven. Discipline lets you know yourself, lets you gain strength."
"I can be so good to you," Tobias whispered, thrusting his finger in slowly and twisting it. "I can take you out of yourself and put you back. I can teach you, find you, and hurt you."

And from the same book the Edward-one came from:

He slid his hand along Nathaniel's neck, then grabbed his braid. Grabbed it, and yanked Nathaniel's neck backward at a painful angle. Nathaniel's breath came in fast pants, his pulse visible like a trapped thing in his throat. (...)
"Let him go," I said. (...)
"He doesn't want me to let him go, do you, Nathaniel?" Byron's voice was very careful, even, as if he finally realized that his game could turn deadly.
Nathaniel's voice came strangled with the angle of his neck, and the force of the vampire's hand on his hair, but what he said was, "No, no, don't stop."

I don't know, it's often not a memorable sentence of its own, not a quote-worthy one, that causes the tingle, it's been built up by everything I've read so far and then it's there and I can't quite pin point it. Like when you've had a whole book of UST and FINALLY it gets resolved in a sweet, perfect way. Happens with mangas, too, sometimes, any medium works.