Ina Rosca

“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

“In a man's letters, you know, madam, his soul lies naked. His letters are only the mirror of his heart. Whatever passes within him is there shown undisguised in its natural progress; nothing is invented, nothing distorted; you see systems in their elements, you discover action in their motives. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale (1777)”
― Michael Kelahan, The World's Greatest Love Letters

“It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.”
― Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy

“She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus