robbing life
by Carolinein the first episode of the second season of northern exposure, joel’s fiancee wrote him a dear john letter saying she’d run off with someone else. his friends recreate a favorite memory to let joel find closure, and one asks what he would say to his fiancee if she were there. he says:
no responses“sex should be wild, shouldn’t it? unfettered and free. we’re animals, aren’t we? i mean basically we’re all wolves in sheep’s fur. i always wanted more. i mean, not frequency, i’m not talking about frequency — although that would be great too — but i, i, i want more intensity. i want it to be out there, outside myself, outside my skin. i want sex to be like robbing life out of the jaws of death.”