Fountainhead Dominique Francon Quotes

#1. Don't say that I'm beautiful and exquisite and like no one you've ever met before and that you're very much afraid that you're going to fall in love with me. You'll say it eventually, but let's postpone it. Apart from that, I think we'll get along very nicely.

Ayn Rand

#2. She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.

Ayn Rand

#3. She found a dark satisfaction in pain - because that pain came from him.

Ayn Rand

#4. You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out.

Ayn Rand

#5. She stopped over the ledge where he worked and she stood watching him openly. When he raised his head, she did not turn away. Her glance told him that she knew the meaning of her action, but did not respect him enough to conceal it. His glance told her only that he had expected her to come.

Ayn Rand

#6. She seemed to find him suitable as an inconsequential companion for an occasional, inconsequential evening. He thought that she liked him.

Ayn Rand

#7. She knew that neither his clothes nor the years stood between her and the living intactness of that memory.

Ayn Rand

#8. I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands ... - I want you like an animal ... or a whore.

Ayn Rand

#9. She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance.

Ayn Rand

#10. It was a strange glance; she had noticed it before; a glance of simple worship. And it made her realize that there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.

Ayn Rand

#11. She wondered why her normal desire to say little, to hold things closed, broke down before him, why she felt compelled to simple frankness, such as she could offer no one else.

Ayn Rand

#12. She walked down the hill and she found relief in the unnatural stillness of the earth around her, the stillness of full light without sun, of leaves without motion, of a luminous, waiting silence.

Ayn Rand

#13. If I ever want to punish myself for something terrible, if I ever want to punish myself disgustingly - I'll marry you." She added: "Consider it a promise.

Ayn Rand

#14. There had always been a God and a Devil - only men had been so mistaken about the shapes of their Devil - he was not single and big, he was many and smutty and small.

Ayn Rand

#15. She did not smile, but her face had the lovely serenity that can become a smile without transition.

Ayn Rand

#16. She moved through formal receptions, theater parties, dinners, dances - gracious and smiling, a smile that made her face brighter and colder, like the sun on a winter day.

Ayn Rand

#17. She drove fast, as a matter of habit, an even speed without a sense of haste.

Ayn Rand

#18. He sat looking at her. She waited to see the derisive smile, but it did not come. The smile seemed implicit in the room itself, in her standing there, halfway across that room.

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#19. No," she said, before he could utter a word, "you can't take me home. I have a car waiting. Thank you just the same.

Ayn Rand

#20. The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.

Ayn Rand

#21. You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn't want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act ...

Ayn Rand

#22. I can do nothing halfway. Those who can, have a fissure somewhere inside. Most people have many. They lie to themselves - not to know that. I've never lied to myself.

Ayn Rand

#23. Her face looked as if she knew his worst suffering and it was hers and she wished to bear it like this, coldly, asking no words of mitigation.

Ayn Rand

#24. I don't like people who try to say only what they think I think.

Ayn Rand

#25. She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.

Ayn Rand

#26. She had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found.

Ayn Rand

#27. My real soul ... ? It's real only when it's independent ...

Ayn Rand

#28. What kind of a tragedy did you have in your childhood?"
"Why, none at all. I had a wonderful childhood. Free and peaceful and not bothered too much by anybody. Well, yes, I did feel bored very often. But I'm used to that.

Ayn Rand

#29. She saw the man below looking at her, she saw the insolent hint of amusement tell her that he knew she did not want him to look at her now. She turned her head away.

Ayn Rand

#30. Dominique, it's abnormal to feel so strongly about anything." "That's the only way I can feel. Or not at all.

Ayn Rand

#31. She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.

Ayn Rand