Veronika Decides to Die Quotes: 3
P 91
You have 2 choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
P 92
Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.
She must learn to care less about annoying others.
Did she really know what it meant to have an orgasm? Or had she only gone as far as men had wanted to take her?
P 100
At first she had tried to avoid her, afraid to awaken the young woman's desire to live.
P 113
He knew he had more chance of getting a reply to his silence than to any question.
P 114
doctor who answered to the name of Dr Igor.
P 116
We are allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroys our lives.
P 118
He was so good looking. If only he would take one step outside his world and see her as a woman, then her last nights on this earth might be the most beautiful of her entire life.
I could fall in love right now and give everything I have to you.
P 119
All the manuals of good behavior say that you should never speak of love so directly.
Tonight I played for you like a woman in love. It was wonderful. It was the best moment of my entire life.
P 121
Her first orgasm came and she bit her lips so as not to cry out with pleasure.
She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim.
P 122
She gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.
It was so good that I can see love in everything, even in the eyes of a schizophrenic.
P 123
Veronika needed to reward him for the immense pleasure he had given her, merely by staying with her and witnessing her madness without horror or repulsion. -- do I owe the same to Shiva & Kishore?
P 124
She played in order to give Eduard as much pleasure as she herself had experienced.
P 127
To smile at every man I felt attracted to.
P 130
An orgy must be completely anarchic and joyful in which the feeling of possession no longer existed, just pleasure and confusion.
P 131
Sexual desire disappeared in the 3rd or 4th year of living together. After that the wife felt rejected and the man felt trapped.
My husband would think I was behaving like a prostitute.
My wife deserves my respect.
It was very dangerous being uninhibited in bed.
P 139
I am tired of all this. But I am used to it too.
P 142
Veronika didnt know what he was talking about. She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness.
P 145
He began to understand that love was something other than what his parents gave him.
