“No one is better than you, because no one else is you.” He loosened her plaits as he spoke, combing his fingers through her not-red hair. “It’s true that I have fucked many people, many times, in many ways. I have fucked every kind of person imaginable—every size, every shape, every nationality, every gender, and of every persuasion under the altar of the sky. I have fucked my way through entire years of my life simply to forget the fact that I cannot die. But I promise you, my ruzhkel, I have never made love with someone before now.”

