In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.

Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?