swallow his soul, i wanna lick it!

"I have encountered something that, until recently, I did not believe existed in the world—something that seems to me more valuable and more shattering than the strongest sensation..."

GERTRUDE WELCKER as Countess Told

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

".....Leon. I'm 55 years old. I'm not carrying you to the shower."

(Proceeds to, somehow, by some miracle of god, carry a half-asleep Leon to the shower)

She gave him her hand. Wenk, to whom the name suddenly clarified the circumstances of the escape on that night when Count Told had entered, kissed her slender fingers, surrendering himself all at once to her beauty without restraint, and toying once more with the fleeting thought: Why hunt people and not love this woman?

Dr. Mabuse der Spieler by Norbert Jacques, Chapter 6