Badassery Quote by Libba Bray

“A girl sat neatly on a flat rock. Somehow he’d not seen her. She looked like she’d stepped through the screen of a 1950s…

— Ali Shaw

“The photograph showed a young couple smiling at the camera. The man didn't look much older than seventeen or eighteen, with light-coloured hair and…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her…

— John Kennedy Toole

“If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“I thought of my picture in the Castle. But what would future girls see when they looked at the photograph during their daily comings…

— Anton DiSclafani

“He wasn’t pleased with himself for appraising the girl in the tank. He thought of her as half-pretty, the sort of girl one would…

— Warren Ellis

“Yesterday in the restaurant, she’d seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she’d seen his danger. This morning, at the river, she’d…

— Barbara Samuel

“And yes, even in the poor lighting, I could see that she was beautiful—in a deadly way—and that struck me too. Her pictures hadn’t…

— Richelle Mead

“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a…

— Soheir Khashoggi

“For the first time since they'd left the inn, his eyes stopped roaming the hills and crags of the countryside and roamed her body's…

— Tessa Dare

“What made Lady Angkatell dangerous, he thought, was the fact that those intuitive, wild guesses of hers might be often right. With a careless…

— Agatha Christie

“Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she…

— Zora Neale Hurston