Valentina Moreli

“She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey, smooth and sweet and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes-and all the while remain as still as the center of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract to themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and women.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

“With kisses your mouth taught me
my lips came to know fire.”
― Pablo Neruda, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems