" Did he expect to be complimented in turn?

“You are...” like a faun, a reclining marble faun, only alive, that I’ve seen on a postcard. Somewhere in a museum in Europe. Naked, spread legs, face showing the agony of lust, of wanting. Your eyes
are places of shadows, deep and true and
secret. “Beautiful. I mean...handsome. "

― Aleksandr Voinov , Special Forces - Veterans (Special Forces, #3)