Reflection Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He caught her pearl with his fingertips and worked her in tight, feverish circles until she shuddered and cried out with the exquisite pleasure.…

— Tessa Dare

“In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then to right now and on and on…

— Ann Brashares

“She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the…

— Lisa Jewell

“she felt the wind rise, felt the pinprick of pebble and grit against her stockings and her cheeks—the slivered shards of mad sunlight in…

— Alice McDermott

“I began to understand what bound Pearl to their simple mystery because i felt the same connection. in front of us, all around us,…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down toward the…

— Margo Lanagan

“Unfurling herself like a large polar cat, she stood twice as tall as me. Her coat was a magnificent mother of pearl, while her…

— Jovee Winters

“I kneel on the planks for her blessing, and then sit beside her with my feet dangling over the edge and my own reflection…

— Philippa Gregory

“And he pictured her down below, turning slowly in the currents, her skin pale blue in the cold rays of sunlight slanting down through…

— Richard Laymon

“She has the sort of body you go to see in marble. She has golden hair. Quickly, deftly, she reaches with both hands behind…

— John McPhee

“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in…

— Vladimir Nabokov