“My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.”
“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)”
“There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion”
“Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have definitely attracted attention.”
“Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.”
“What had passed between them had been real and true and lived. Not like the silly infatuation she had felt for [him] when she was 16, or the foolish attraction she’d felt. Theirs had been a true love. Forged and built and earned.”