“Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.”

“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”

“You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me?You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.”

“Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths”

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

“Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.”