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“The devil doesn’t smile,” he said. “The devil smirks.”
“I’ll do everything perverse to you. But you still shouldn’t be afraid.”
“But I assure you, they will be very long nights for both of us.”
In general, however, your pleasure gives me pleasure.
Art should be dangerous, you know. It should say something to society that society doesn’t want to hear.
“I don’t know who I envy more,” he said. “You for having the sketch. Or him, for having you.”
“The devil wants your soul. I only want your body.” He could believe that if wanted, but Mona knew the truth. If he kept fucking her like this, soon enough he would own both.
“The things you do to me…I’d never dare dream them, much less do them. And yet, when I’m with you, there is no game I wouldn’t play, nothing of my body would I keep from you. You leave me and I go mad with waiting. You leave me and you are my every waking thought and my every sleeping dream. And if I knew when you were returning to me, I would count the minutes until I saw you again.”
It’s human nature to race toward pleasure and flee from pain.
“I have waited a very long time for you,”
“I loved a woman I shouldn’t have loved,”
