Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“He looked the way I felt around Delia: as if a second sun was growing underneath my breastbone, a secret I could barely conceal.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink your aspirations…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me from watching…

— Naomi Novik

“…he seems devastatingly, impossibly handsome, but so aloof and unreachable that it is almost as if she has her nose pressed against a glass…

— Georgia Le Carre

“He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“His posture spoke of condescension, his expression disinterest. He was all brambles and icicles as he strode closer to her cage.”

— Marissa Meyer

“when she was sitting staring into space, communing with her disillusion, his heart would be wrung by their unloving beauty.”

— Christina Stead

“She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I think I see her chest rise as she catches her breath. Maybe she’ll be the one to throw on the brakes. God knows…

— M. Leighton

“And how simple, how sublimely familiar was the tale her body told.”

— Kurt Vonnegut