And so I walked the streets and haunted the bars, and was, according to me, the only man on earth who had nothing to learn.

Then suddenly, she walked through the door.

– Thomas H. Cook

In the simple way of the wild daisies that grew in the grass of the pasture behind out home, she offered the beauty of herself without pretention.

– William Kent Krueger

…one of those beautiful, proud nymphs fabled to appear to mortals in the depths of the forest or upon the solitary mountain-sides, only to drive them mad with passion and regret.

– George Sand

Her buxom charms, so generously revealed in tights and spangles, made him flush and cast down his eyes.

– Tod Robbins

There were three men sitting with her and their eyes feasted on her, they had their mouths open in a sort of mingled fascination and worship.

– David Goodis

The girls hugged their schoolbooks and swerved their breasts.

– James Ellroy

She was dressed in a white woolen sweater and a pair of rough cotton jeans which were faded and grey but had bright red checks on the cuffs. She wore her jeans a little short, and her fair skin peeped out above her canvas shoes. Her hair was tied back loosely in a ponytail, revealing the long delicate curve of her neck. Her shoulders were pulled forward by the dog tugging at the leash. Gimpei was lost in her dreamlike beauty, and even the color of the skin which showed between the red checks and her white shoes weighed so heavily on his heart that he felt like dying or killing her.

– Yasunari Kawabata

When I speak of angels and the troubling grace of some of my young girls, don’t forget that the most dazzlingly radiant, fallen, and glorious angel was Lucifer. The adolescent agitation of my young girls’ bodies reflects an ambiguous nocturnal light along with a light from heaven.

– Balthus

Desire is the soul’s inspiration, the quality within and outside us that Balthus revealed in his models’ gaze.

– Paul Lombard

She would treat him as if he were a stain on the bathroom rug and then stand close by him while he worked until he was dizzy with the smell of her, with the heat that seemed to radiate off her body. She stood by him while he knelt painting baseboards and after an infinite moment leaned carefully the weight of a thigh against his shoulder.

– William Gay