Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.
Dorothy AllisonTwo or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.
Dorothy AllisonWhen I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
Dorothy Allison