Quote by Jodi Picoult

“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

“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.”

— Matt Haig

“There were half circles under her eyes and other, subtler signs that mark an acutely troubled young girl, but nonetheless no one could have…

— J.D. Salinger

“while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape…

— Rachel Cusk

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

“As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.”

— Angela N. Blount

“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.”

— Gerry Abbey

“Tried to figure a logic of it, but the dots had collapsed like marbles and that had been good”

— Steve Merrick

“I traced lazy shapes along her hip and waist. The figure eight made her shiver and wiggle closer, so it was my favorite.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Life was a strange circle. She tried not to decipher it, but rather to accept it as it came.”

— Lorraine Heath

“Her face was a synthesis of perfect symmetry and unusual proportion; he could have gazed at it for hours, trying to locate the source…

— J.K. Rowling