Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“How did men manage to offer a compliment that transitioned from sweet to utterly salacious in the span of a few words?”

— Chloe Neill

“She sometimes wished she possessed the flawed kind of taste that drew girls to arseholes who wanted that one thing alone.”

— Ali Shaw

“She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Faced with an excess of beauty the mind can often only drink.”

— Jim Grimsley

“Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give?”

— Josephine Tey

“talk about her mind compliment her eyes more she's too rare for average compliments”

— R.H. Sin

“She was certainly rather drunk. Her eyes were fixed as if upon some far-off point. She seemed to be contemplating a future at once…

— Jean Rhys

“She saw, yet again, that her friend's compliments were just bits of art and artifice. They were paper swans, cunningly folded so that they…

— Marie Rutkoski

“And the strange thing was: I knew that most people didn't see her as I did--if anything, found her a bit odd-looking wth her…

— Donna Tartt

“At least it’s better than those usual compliments you insult ladies with.” She extracted her hand, which still tingled from his touch, and walked…

— Susanna Ives

“She was… damn it, she was everything. Witty, enchanting, brave, smart… and beautiful. And he knew that his eyes were saying all that and…

— L.J Smith

“She’d always envied beautiful women. Not solely for the beauty itself but because when attributes were parceled out by whatever deity assigned them, beauty…

— Tessa Dare