For what is she, but a spare daughter?

Its appearance is unbeautiful. It is not what people expect of a mermaid.

For mermaids are the most unnatural of creatures and their hearts are empty of love.

Any gentleman can tell a lie; any scoundrel can talk truth.

A whore is a whore is a whore.

I am cognisant, as those gentlemen are not, that all pleasures have their cost.

For class is a type of bubble, a membrane around one, and although one might grow within this membrane, and strain against it, it is impossible to break free from it. And a man of nobility is always such in his soul, however he may fall; and a man of humble sort is always such in his soul, however he may climb.

All cats are grey with the candles out.

Touch me again with your speaking. The hectic crowded feeling of being: I would drink it all in. Brimming with things that swell, and make me flip over on myself: elation and jealousy and spasms of love.

I cry out and there is a dull nothing.