Quote by Lorrie Moore

“Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“somewhere deep inside, her sister understood dimly that her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“The pistol against her back was as hard and cold as death, and the feeling soothed her.”

— Haruki Murakami

“She still looked like a force to be reckoned with. Her short stature made her look cute and innocent, but I knew that was…

— Bud Rudesill

“...she forced herself to relax her shoulders and affect a tone of bored insouciance that the Widow would have approved, and said, "I shall…

— Donna Thorland

“Someone else had made her a weapon, but she made herself kind.”

— Max Gladstone

“I welcome her feral nature.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere…

— Laini Taylor

“Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with their beauty…

— Victor Hugo

“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

“Beautiful, brave and possessed of violent tendencies. I like her.”

— Dianne Duvall

“I wanted to know if she fucked the way she seemed to live—full of passion and fierce energy.”

— Nina Levine