“A twenty-five-cent word sprang unbidden into my mind: “noctilucent.” The word described the glow of a cat’s eyes at night, but it also seemed right for the woman in the photograph. She was a moonbeam turned flesh, pale with white-blond hair and wide-set light green eyes. Beautiful was not an appropriate word; she looked otherworldly. She looked impossible.”
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“Not a sound, but a sort of silence, a faint hum like the space between note and note in a song.”
“One of the most beautiful feelings in life is pure love without a second thought.”
“Mother Nature is capable of the most beautiful things and the most destructive forces.”
“If Eddie had ever seen a more beautiful woman, he couldn't remember it.”
“And all my former life is seen—a crazy drowsy beautiful and utterly appalling dream.”