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1 " Prettiness is lent to you by youth; attractiveness is purchased with experience. "
― C.M. Waggoner , Unnatural Magic
2 " It was wonderful what one could accomplish when one threw everything away "
3 " Put that on." He did. She knelt. "Get on my back."He recoiled. "I will not." "You fucking will," she said. "It's snowing out there. Up to your knees. You'll slow us down. I wont die for your pride, Pink." He got on her back. She slung her fur cloak around both of them and left the cave without a glance behind her. "
4 " She was in the habit of apologizing for making faces that men thought weren’t very pretty. It occurred to her, very briefly, that she resented being made to think about her face when she was trying to focus on the contents of her mind. "
5 " The fact of the matter was that he had as much actual experience of being wrapped in the embrace of a lover as he had in riding camels—which was to say that he had done both once, briefly and uncomfortably. "