Quote by Sarah Beth Durst

“I should have realized that somebody that pretty was dangerous. She was like a freaking walking Venus flytrap.”

— Tara A. Fuller

“Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She…

— Christine Zolendz

“She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.”

— Megan Hart

“She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“To her, the human form — plain as it was, and not spliced together with other species — was a missed opportunity.”

— Laini Taylor

“She was truly one of the most ancient and wildest of creatures.”

— Thea Harrison

“She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even…

— Miriam Toews

“Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we’re young We have the right to…

— Anonymous

“Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.”

— Irma Joubert

“To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so…

— John Williams