“Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn’t doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he – he ignored it – ignored you. What would you feel?”

“Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn’t doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he – he ignored it – ignored you. What would you feel?”

— Ahdaf Soueif