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Devlin's disarming blue eyes were set in a face of such perfect masculine beauty that it should have come from a painting or a sculpture. Yet there was nothing aristocratic about his looks. He possessed an earthiness, a sensuality, that was impossible to ignore. If he resembled an angel, it was a fallen one. — Lisa Kleypas

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't. — Dave Hickey

Oliver looked very worn and shadowy from sickness: and made an ineffectual attempt to stand up, out of respect to his benefactor: which terminated in his sinking back into the chair again; and the fact is, if the truth must be told, that Mr. Brownlow's heart, being large enough for any six ordinary old gentlemen of humane disposition, forced a supply of tears into his eyes, by some hydraulic process which we are not sufficiently philosophical to be in a condition to explain. — Charles Dickens

Werewolves have been susceptible to the gentler sex for as long as I can remember, and that is a very long time, indeed. — Gail Carriger

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something. — Meg Cabot

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty ... she is smart. -Mackenzie — Tara Michener

My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. — Fanny Burney

The powers that be don't want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are. — Bernard Hopkins

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book. — Erich Fromm

Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They'd rather show the highlight of what they've become. — Angela Duckworth