She had always found it difficult to believe what experience had taught her, that men and women could be physically beautiful without also possessing some comparable qualities of mind and spirit, that beauty could be wasted on the mundane, the ignorant or the stupid.


The Private Patient (2008)


She had always found it difficult to believe what experience had taught her, that men and women could be physically beautiful without also possessing ...

She had always found it difficult to believe what experience had taught her, that men and women could be physically beautiful without also possessing ...

She had always found it difficult to believe what experience had taught her, that men and women could be physically beautiful without also possessing ...

She had always found it difficult to believe what experience had taught her, that men and women could be physically beautiful without also possessing ...