The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Cowboys don’t go around breaking hearts.

Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.

The noise is greater then the nuts.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.