Quote by Ellen Klages

“No one knew how old she was, but she vaguely remembered waving to President Coolidge. She still had all of her marbles, though every…

— Ellen Klages

“She could find no purchase on the older woman’s marble-smooth countenance. There were no cracks to give her a view into her soul.”

— Frances Hardinge

“It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had…

— Eowyn Ivey

“But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved.”

— Mervyn Peake

“The fact that he gave her the creeps just proved she was normal. He had the flat, dead face of an item turned out…

— Walter Kaylin

“Such was the texture of her marble. [In a description of Laura Trevelyan.]”

— Patrick White

“She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.”

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“The man had a body that made her want to learn how to carve marble.”

— Jenna Bayley-Burke

“At some point I realized I was seeing something I had never seen before, that she wasn’t quantitatively more beautiful but qualitatively. She had…

— Clive Treadwell

“She held the marble fast. I felt a surge of admiration for her, and dark gratitude.”

— M. Pierce

“Her personality had more sides than a set of dice.”

— Clare Donoghue

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she…

— Patrick Rothfuss