Christine

“To wash your hair, apply your makeup and put on clothes that are well-scented with incense. Even if you’re somewhere where no one special will see you, you still feel a heady sense of pleasure inside.”
― Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

“I am much worse than a heretic – I am a pagan”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“Well you know me – I am a woman of stone, your Venus in Furs, your ideal, so kneel and adore me.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“I feel sorry for him, but I do not love him. I love no one. I used to love you, as ardently, as passionately, as deeply as it was possible for me to love, but now I don't love even you any more; my heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs