Quote by Sarah Perry Download Open image ““...she was bound by whalebone, pierced with ivory, pinned by the hair with tortoiseshell.”” — Sarah Perry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell...” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“She had hair the colour of' blackmail, a spine as straight as a guillotine, and a face that could sink ships.” — Marie Phillips Copy Share Image
“She was bewitching. Even now when she conceded little more than she had when he'd kissed her last night. She quivered under his hands. He still wasn't sure whether she was excited or frightened. He'd read both curiosity and dread in her pansy eyes. Her thick tortoiseshell hair tickled his fingers. After her wild ride, she looked enchantingly disheveled. It… — Anna Campbell Copy Share
“She had the bone structure of a bird. Wolf probably could have crushed her with his fingertips.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“She wanted to buckle, lie on her side and gasp like an eviscerated fish. She held her breath against it, but her mouth parted.… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Astonishing. In the morning, when she sat working at that table of correspondence, silhouetted by sunlight . . . Her hair truly did look… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.” — Andrea Zuvich Copy Share Image
“No one took her seriously because she was small and feathered, a strange little dino-bird, but she had a sickle claw and she was… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“A lock of her hair escaped its pin and rode out on the wind, one more insubordinate part of her reaching for him.” — Cecilia Grant Copy Share Image
“Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand whether she… — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
“The point is not what I see, but what I feel; I cannot see the ether, yet I feel it enter and depart, and… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“...But doesn't it take greater strength to walk a mile in pain than seven miles in none? You are a woman, and must begin… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“CLEAVE. To cleave to something is to cling to it with all your heart, he said, but to cleave something apart is to break… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“But it was impossible to share my feelings of grief with Peggy, because most of the time it was impossible to feel them. My… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no more fixed than the… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“She'd never know what to do with children: Francis had wrong-footed her so completely that she'd come to think of them as delightful but… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“the old stories were right, she thought, and man had been first made from a handful of dust, here was Adam himself: all mud,… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you: where the knife failed, you have succeeded. He is shattered - you have turned out all his lights! You have… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“It was just the light,’ she said, ‘up to its old tricks. But how was my heart to know?” — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
