Anaïs Nin, Delta Of Venus Quotes

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.