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“And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased…

— Virginia Woolf

“She is so secure in her beautifully imperfect self that she would welcome you with open arms, no judgment, and complete acceptance.”

— Susan C. Young

“Her body pressed against his felt like the most natural thing in the world, and the way she fit against him as though they…

— Jessica Park

“She could control with parts of her body too. She could control some people with her face alone, or with her face and a…

— Kristin Cashore

“But he had held her hand, he had looked into her face in the dark hall, and a strange ecstatic entrancement had come over…

— Anna Kavan

“Without her fears, she would have nothing to overcome. Without her doubts, she would have nothing to conquer. Without her flaws, she would be…

— K.A. Linde

“As the two of us—past self, my present self—hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her…

— David Levithan

“And it was good just to hold her and touch the softness of her skin. He wanted to hold her hard, not to hurt…

— L.J. Smith

“Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“She does not, beautiful as she is, seize the soul by surprise, but, with more dangerous fascination, she steals it almost imperceptibly.”

— Anonymous

“No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had opened her mouth to sing.…

— Ann Patchett

“Her face had always held too much personality to be merely beautiful.”

— Ian McDonald