# Quote — Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

> Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...

- Author: [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md)
- Book: [Fear of Flying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erica_Jong#Fear_of_Flying_(1973)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/underneath-it-all

## More from this book

> It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/its-only-when.md)

Topics: [the future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future.md)

> Sheer bitchiness can be a sort of style.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/sheer-bitchiness-can.md)

> I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/i-want-you.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)