“You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.”

“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”

“I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long …arousing and persuading and reproaching…You will not easily find another like me.”

“it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl.”

“People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.”

“ His lips,his soft and amazing lips, touch mine and the world spins with a different kind of magic. This kind isn't evil or hard, but lovely and wild, and I melt into it. He melts into it too, I can tell. I can feel how much he loves me just but the touch of his lips. And it is a good love, a really good love.”