“Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.”
― Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries III: Luke the Protector

“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Anything someone gets conned into will never be that great.”
― Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed

“You know what would really help? If men started looking at it like a bank. The more you deposit the more you can withdraw later. Make a woman come as a rule, she’s going to be more receptive to regular sex and much more open-minded about what’s on the table as far as experimenting. Common sense.”
― Chloe Cole, Undercover Lovers

“A woman’s sexuality is not at all like a man’s. A man can literally f**k a watermelon and come. If you put enough friction on his c**k, in some semblance of a rhythm, he will orgasm. It’s a no brainer.”
― Chloe Cole, Undercover Lovers

“Did you know studies show that eighty percent of women have faked orgasm? And fifty percent admit to doing it on a regular basis?”
― Chloe Cole, Undercover Lovers

“Not much makes me feel uncomfortable about sexuality. It’s the most natural thing in the world. I don’t really get why people make such a stink. It’s like being embarrassed of hunger or thirst.”
― Chloe Cole, Undercover Lovers

“Con not, that thou be not conned.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“It was no good my knowing that old men have conned young ones like that ever since time began. I still fell for it, as one still falls for the oldest literary devices in the right hands and contexts.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Since you're so quick with the texts, you could have provided me with a little help when I was negotiating the price of my sherwani. I can't believe how badly Deepa tried to rip me off."
"Are you sulking?" She stared at him, incredulous. "The big venture capitalist who just closed the company's fourth fund at $350 million is sulking because he was bested at negotiating the purchase of a traditional Indian wedding outfit for a fake wedding that will last ten minutes by a frail sixty-year-old woman for whom English is a second language."
"She wasn't frail.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“Those who think they may not be conned are those most surprised they were.”
― Sharky Rich