“and if she wasn’t precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty.”

“There is nothing more attractive than confidence, once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will.”

“She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a world of extraordinary-looking people for so long, and hers was a life of the mind rather than the beauty of face and body. She never thought about it, which somehow made her even more attractive.”

“ behold, the angel in beautiful nature-in defiance of boldness character, and in truth, she is the attraction of all curious souls, and spirit worlds”

“She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.”

“It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in being poorer than people who were smart and beautiful. But to be less affluent than these T-shirted, joke-cracking fatsos-”