Aging Quote by Mavis Gallant

“But she wasn't a little girl, she was a beautiful woman, tall and lovely, with tresses of black hair that curved like cupped hands…

— Justin Cronin

“She was a thin, sickly, bony child, like an eft, with fine hair like sunlit smoke.”

— A.S. Byatt

“Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not…

— Henry James

“God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful…

— G.S. Jennsen

“As far as I could recall, with long hair, she had been just another cute coed. From the girl who sat before me now,…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“Unfortunately, no one had been able to do much with her hair. It formed a very unfashionable, slightly frizzy halo around her head.”

— Amanda Quick

“She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a…

— Danielle Steel

“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

“This time, the anger in her voice wasn’t there, and the tears were beginning to overflow her lower lids, starting their slow tracks down…

— Mira Grant

“There she was, lying on a single bed in a room so small that there wasn't even space for a chair, and the first…

— Richard Yates

“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