Dangerous Beauty

"Do you know what my daughters nurse told her today? In a girls voice lies temptation - a known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body. She doesnt believe it yet, but she will. Shell grow up just like her mother. Marry, raise children and honor her family. Spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, shell wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence."

"Its the wanting that keeps us alive."

"Desire begins in the mind. Cleopatra, Theodocia, she could seduce a man at twenty paces, without revealing an inch of flesh."

"If I didnt know you better Id think you have the feigned indifference of a man in love. Go on son. Tell the truth and shame the devil."