"...After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter."
- Pierre Louÿs
"I left the bed as she had left it, unmade and rumpled, coverlets awry, so that her body's print might rest still warm beside my own.Until the next day I did not go to bathe, I wore no clothes and did ..."
"When he came back, I hid my face within my hands. He said: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kiss? --Who saw us? The night and the moon.""And the stars and the first flush of dawn. The moon has seen its..."