Quote by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman.”

— Jan Moran

“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange. It was…

— Henry James

“She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted…

— Robert Jordan

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The world could not define her. She was ineffably, inimitably, and incredibly herself!”

— Avijeet Das

“Her features were dainty, her small slender wrists climbed up to become the delicate shoulders that beckoned him. Her skin was like peach-tinted cream…

— Faraaz Kazi

“She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance,…

— Jane Austen

“I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my…

— Emily Brontë

“She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible…

— Azar Nafisi

“Her beauty has captured me, imprisoned my capacity for language. All I can do is pay homage to the temple of her body.”

— Jasinda Wilder

“Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.”

— Lorraine Heath

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille