He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

Say something worth the words.