Sublime
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Grace Macaulay, then: seventeen, small and plump, with skin that went brown by the end of May. Her hair was black and oily, and had the hot consoling scent of an animal in summer. She disliked books, and was by nature a thief if she found a thing to be beautiful, but not hers. She didn’t know she couldn’t sing. She was inclined to be cross.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Stitched among the whorls were so many seed pearls, in such a massed weight, the dress could only have been worn by a strong woman whose love for extravagance and style exceeded the desire for comfort.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said. Only the wild ones had souls.)
Margaret Atwood • Old Babes in the Wood
The Bluest Eye Quotes
Autumn
There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out, you go somewhere else; if you are outdoors, there is no place to go. The distinction was subtle but final. Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition. Being a
An idea began to form in Pearl’s mind in wild golden loops.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
As with many beautiful teenage girls, her expression lacked any trace of everyday life.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Mrs. Thorpe was a widow, and not a very rich one; she was a good-humoured, well-meaning woman, and a very indulgent mother. Her eldest daughter had great personal beauty, and the younger ones, by pretending to be as handsome as their sister, imitating her air, and dressing in the same style, did very well.
David M. Shapard • The Annotated Northanger Abbey
A sister had been omitted from the text.