Acquired taste Quote by Leslye Walton

“Without her glasses Vivian did look a little frightening. She had tight sinewy strappy muscles and a face that was hardened and almost brutal…

— Brian Morton

“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

“You ask if she had beauty's grace? I know not - but a nobler face My eyes have seldom seen; A keen and fine…

— The Bronte Sisters

“She was never thought of as a pretty girl. People might say she looked interesting, mysterious, older than her years and therefore intriguing, but…

— Alice Walker

“She was abstractly beautiful, as I had always wished to be, but I now found her ugly, understanding as I did now that real…

— Charlotte McConaghy

“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be…

— Victor Hugo

“and if she wasn’t precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Beauty might be a gift to our souls from the heavens. Luxury, purchased. But suddenly she understood. There was strength in elegance.”

— Lynn Sheene

“She wasn't pretty, but there were moments when I found her beautiful.”

— David Levithan

“He found her beautiful, if a bit strange and sour. It was something in the way that her eyes sparked when she looked at…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but…

— Edmund Wilson

“Beauty was found in the things that caught my eye, that made emotions flow. It was deeper than the skin, buried in the spirit,…

— Rachel Higginson