She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.

Barbara Pym
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About This Quote

This quote is about how it can be hard to know how you should feel when someone is kissing you. How often do we read literature and think that if characters in the story start showing feelings, they must feel those feelings? But, what if they don’t? What if a character is a poet and a reader of poetry but doesn’t really like being kissed? There are so many instances where we think a person always feels something, no matter how they look on the outside. Our world consists of so many people who have been told they should feel a certain way or not feel something. People want to be happy but sometimes the pressure of society is too much for them to handle.

In this quote, there is a mention of English poets. This implies that the person being kissed was well read in literature and knew that she should feel some emotion from being kissed, even though she didn’t really like it herself.

Source: Crampton Hodnet

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