“A man's weakness is a woman's beauty...a woman's weakness is falling in love.”
“...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”
“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”
“To be a woman is not a weakness.”
“How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.”
“While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael’s Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he’d once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.”