At this point I was beginning to quote lines from the book to one of my co-workers. She questioned whether I was reading a romance novel or some sort of fan fiction. I wondered the same, but Brooke is an award-winning journalist — not a dreamy-eyed school girl. She couldn’t possibly been seduced by a subject’s charming demeanor.

When he has his eyes on me — as he did just now when he was saying that fear exists largely in our own minds — I have the sense he’s looking right into my soul. The teenage girl in me swoons madly, but the investigative journalist concludes that the detached/intense thing is a technique he’s honed after years of practice to get people to open up and five away their secrets. I have to admit it’s pretty effective.

Or … maybe I was wrong.

via How Julian Assange could seduce even you – Digital Life.