Characterisation Quote by Sara Sheridan

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan

“If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Mirabelle attracts men of a different kind. They are shyer and more reticent. They look at her a long time before approaching, and when…

— Steve Martin

“Mirabelle, who never takes credit for her attractiveness, believes it is not she he is responding to, but rather something independent of her.”

— Steve Martin

“All this in no way discounts her attractiveness. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.”

— Steve Martin

“Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failure to approach her, as her own self-deprecating attitude never allows the idea that he would in…

— Steve Martin

“She appears sunny, a quality that Mirabelle can call upon only for special occasions.”

— Steve Martin

“To Mirabelle, the idea of being an object of obsession is alluring and represents a powerful love. She fails to understand, however, that men…

— Steve Martin

“As she sits in a booth, it never occurs to her to observe herself, and thus she is spared the image of a girl…

— Steve Martin

“Mirabelle's ambition is about one-tenth of 1 percent of what would be called normal. ... She is not aware that some people fight like…

— Steve Martin

“Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal monotony of…

— Gustave Flaubert