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“He was exactly my height, which surprised me; my awe of him had made him seem taller.”

— Rachel Hartman

“She was average height, more slender than curvy. And he realized with horror that he was attracted to her. A lot.”

— Miranda Liasson

“And that was a big if. But none of that mattered at the moment. Suddenly his lower half seemed the smarter of the two…

— Jules Barnard

“I felt intimidated. I felt less than, not equal, and on a completely different, un-relatable level.”

— Portia de Rossi

“He was being reasonable; he wasn't beating the shit out of them right now. He considered that pretty damn reasonable considering the burgeoning rage…

— Erica Stevens

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

— William Golding

“He was holding the image of his own people up: sometimes it was weight enough to stagger under.”

— Colum McCann

“I remembered to keep my body inclined low, to shrink myself smaller than he. He was sensitive about my greater height.”

— Nalo Hopkinson

“He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“He'd still be who he was, and that, it seemed to him, was the basic problem.”

— Nick Hornby

“Many things receded into the distance behind him, seemed ridiculous or fantastical, or both. Were, at their core, unimportant.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on.”

— Ian McEwan