Lust, Caution Quotes

“Alive, her body belonged to him; dead, she was his ghost.”
― Eileen Chang, Lust, Caution

“She felt surprised that it was still light outside, as if inside the store she had lost all sense of time. The pavement around her was heaving with humanity; pedicab after pedicab rushed past on the road, all of them taken. Pedestrians and vehicles flowed on by, as if separated from her by a wall of glass, and no more accessible than the elegant mannequins in the window of the Green House Ladies’ Clothing Emporium—you could look, but you couldn’t touch. They glided along, imperviously serene, as she stood on the outside, alone in her agitation.”
― eileen chang, Lust, Caution

“In truth, every time she was with Yee she felt cleansed, as if by a scalding hot bath; for now everything she did was for the cause.”
― Eileen Chang, Lust, Caution

“Her hands felt cold, but she was somehow warmed by the sound of a familiar voice.”
― Eileen Chang, Lust, Caution