Clemency

“...that she is beautiful, an impossible kind of beauty, composed of all the wrong elements: white hair, the flawless but deeply lined skin, the freckles of age dotting the hands and face.”
― Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button
nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild
about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'

- Jane Eyre”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre