Appearance Quote by Haruki Murakami

“No matter how hard she tried to maintain her calm and collected persona, she knew it was all a ruse. All she wanted to…

— Cristiane Serruya

“She sat up, cheeks flushed and golden hair tousled. She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. I always wished desperately that…

— Richelle Mead

“She did not greatly alter in appearance. The plain dark dresses, akin to mourning dresses, which she and her child wore, were as neat…

— Charles Dickens

“She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“She says that she held on to the memory as if it were a touchstone, something that could anchor her. She knows, has always…

— Madeleine Thien

“Somehow, though, neither her clothes nor her features seemed to matter—they were the adornments of a painting or a picture, not the real thing.…

— Benedict Jacka

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

“Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself--except…

— Willa Cather

“As the two of us—past self, my present self—hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her…

— David Levithan

“Even her beauty had sharp edges. Her long ebony hair was cut like a razor blade. Her face was strong and fine.But her eyes.…

— Laura Oliva

“As she sat opposite to her glass, relieving her head from its garniture of false hair, she acknowledged to herself that age was coming…

— Anthony Trollope

“You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she’d been and the child she’d become…

— Celeste Ng