Quote by May Vanderbilt

“It was the thought of him that I had problems with, I realised. The reality was really rather desirable.”

— Dorothy Koomson

“I'd been surprised when I first realized that I found him attractive; that hadn't happened to me before. The fact that he turned out…

— Mira Grant

“He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made…

— Seema Gupta

“I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him.”

— Sarah Ockler

“Suddenly, I couldn't turn away from his piecing, infectious gaze. He was wrong and tragic and gorgeous all at the same time. At that…

— Melody Lee

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

— William Golding

“That's not him at all, just how you perceive him.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

“He could really fool the shit out of himself. A guy had to be careful about creating his own reality. Because you could get…

— Anne Frasier

“was an amazing guy, really. Totally himself. Totally unapologetic about having all these different sides of his personality that didn’t quite mesh. He didn’t…

— Bill Konigsberg

“Ideas themselves were sensual things to him.”

— S.P. Somtow

“I... was impulsive and skinny, and wished that I could be more like a character in a novel, so I would finally stop blurting…

— Yvonne Woon

“I was a pretty thing, and pretty things did not fare well in this world, not in the hands of men like him.”

— C.J. Roberts