youthful allure Quotes

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.

[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.

Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.