Quotes

It becomes annoying only when they start talking, as if I’d have any interest in anything that comes out of their mouths.

One by one, she showed the little metal or glass containers to me, held them under my nose, dabbed a little of each on my cheek, my eyelid, my lips. “This,” she said, “is what a woman wears instead of armor. You put on the right makeup, and you look invincible. You feel like a warrior. You will still be a woman, but you will wear this on the outsid

and abode to countless other filthy gorgeous stars—has fallen from grace, or at least from the grace of those who live graciously.

The bridges hang like jewels around the throat of the night, and the rivers unspool

You sit at a bar and you’re gifted with that feeling of utopia peculiar to places frequented by wanderers. Hotels are like train travel, like early-morning pillow talk with a stranger. They allow you to occupy a space that’s caught in indefiniteness.

Then, as one should, we fucked in the glow of the fireplace, the lambent light turning even Casimir’s white skin a toasty tiger.

for me because, even though I didn’t know the precise shape and weight of lust, I knew that lust was power—and I wanted power even then.