How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Remember what Father had said about Fitz? About not leaving me alone with him? The effect of arsenic on men—that was surely the reason. (22.215)
Briony realizes that even though she didn't know it, her father was protecting her from the lustful danger of an addicted man when he fired her tutor.
Quote #8
I was asking about lust, wasn't I? I was fairly certain of it. But isn't love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary. (24.111)
Oh, the hormones—Briony's questions about love and lust are new to her because she has never felt either, but also because she does not have the guidance of someone who has been through this before.
Quote #9
There was one difference between Eldric and Cecil, a difference peculiar to Briony Larkin, and that was lust. I lusted after Eldric; I shuddered away from Cecil. (26.14)
Briony confuses her love for Eldric with pure lust, so when she says she lusted for Eldric and not for Cecil, she could easily replace the word lust with love and still be truthful. Her dislike of Cecil also comes from his disrespectful pursuit of her.