“I had never seen a more flawless specimen than this wild looking siren.”

“The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn’t”

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.”