Cruel Quote by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“And then sudden pain, blinding and brilliant. Fire wrenched her head and fought against the healer, against Archer’s heavy strength. Her scarf slipped off…

— Kristin Cashore

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”

— Emily Brontë

“And in her reverence of his skin, he felt that shame wither and curl, like paper on a flame, and float upward, disintegrating into…

— Amy Harmon

“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

“Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face…

— Dezső Kosztolányi

“I've found her, she is how the story tells. Black hair, pale skin, perfect body. And her eyes, oh, her eyes! She hurts with…

— Chiara Cilli

“His face burst into a prism of colors and light as her eyes welled with tears and when they fell down her cheeks it…

— Genevieve Dewey

“To have been granted so tiny a taste of the nectar of her mouth, and so brief a brush with the velvet of her…

— Laini Taylor

“It drew aside the window-curtain and looked out; perhaps it saw dawn approaching, for, taking the candle, it retreated to the door. Just at…

— Charlotte Brontë

“As the ground blossomed into greenness With the touch of the summer sun Matched the color of her eyes. She gazed out over the…

— Anonymous

“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

“She was breathing hard, and deep circles of red burned high on her bright cheeks; in all my life I had never seen anyone…

— Donna Tartt