“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
“Maybe there was no such thing as innocent flirting.”
“He was proud and stubborn, and all the ton looked up to him. Men curried his favor, women flirted like mad. And all the while he'd been terrified every time he'd opened his mouth.”
“I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.”
“Don’t call a girl a flirt, she’s just trying to be nice. Don’t call a girl obsessed when she’s just in love.”
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”