“You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.”

“In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was."That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves.""Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.”

“You looking good.""Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.”

“When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.”

“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?”

“The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. ”