Quote by Truman Capote

“I could feel it in her, that volatile tenderness that could never forget injury. It was her weakness, her flaw-- that she would never…

— Naeem Murr

“How could looking into a face of such unparalleled beauty bring about such unprecedented pain?”

— fawn bonning

“She invaded his heart, first in pictures, and then later through the casual touch of her hand, the smell of her hair, and finally…

— Tatjana Soli

“As soon as I had seen her, I was lost. For Beauty's wound is sharper than any weapon's, and it runs through the eyes…

— Achilles Tatius

“She was his dawn of bliss He was her dusk of wounds, Each day they came up to See and touch They couldn't stay…

— Tanya Gambhir

“felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Beauty like her is not born. It is suffered for, earned and shaped, until the day that it finally becomes. For there is nothing…

— Becca Lee

“...she had developed such a quiet comfort in his presence, like all the hurt of the world couldn't touch her. Yet, every once in…

— Sibylla Matilde

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and had the…

— Arthur Golden

“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was precious. And…

— J. Rose Black

“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.”

— Olivia Sudjic