“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”
“I don't want to look ravishing. I want to BE ravished.”
“No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal”
“Wasn't I rapt?Wasn't I ravished?”
“And then what would she say? I just told your brother that I love him, and I'm afraid that he hates me? I can't be alone with Turner because I'm afraid he might ravish me? I can't be alone with Turner because I'm afraid I might ravish him.”
“I wore a white velvet gown, similar to my Smolny dress. I looked forward to the day when I could wear any color in public other than white. White was innocent. My soul was not.”