Faith

“Why is everyone here so easy on the eyes?”
― mc pending, Untouchable

“Someone put a tea-tray on the table beside us, and I looked up to see the very prettiest girl I had ever set eyes on. She seemed little more than a child, and before the war would probably have still ranked as a flapper. She wore the neat blue dress and apron of a VAD, and her white cap was set on hair like spun gold. She smiled demurely as she arranged the tea-things, and I thought I had never seen eyes at once so merry and so grave. I stared after her as she walked across the lawn, and I remember noticing that she moved with the free grace of an athletic boy.”
― John Buchan, Mr. Standfast

“She spoke quickly, her tongue feeling like a hummingbird's wing; she was so afraid of boring him if she took too long.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“I'm sorry," he whispered, and though they were two short words that could be meaningless, she knew they were anything but. Not from him. Not from the boy who rarely spoke at all, making each word he uttered worth a thousand from anyone else.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars