Margot

“Mrs. Porter was fat, and her breath smelled like burnt newspapers.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“She constantly piles up her hair with her hands and then lets it fall. She laughs, but there is no sound. It's all in silence - she is made out of yesterdays.”
― James Salter

“As Rilke says, there are no classes for beginners in life, the most difficult thing is always asked of one right away.”
― James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime

“Is it possible to fall in love over a single look? Anna couldn’t say. But at the behest of a glance tossed casually down upon her, she was made witness, victim, and slave to the culmination of all her mythologies.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau