Literature Quiz / Quick Pick: The Secret History Characters

[...] pale and radiant eyes with their sooty lashes, […] the gold glimmer at her temple that blended gradually into her glossy hair, warm as honey.

[…] heavy dark-blond hair and an epicene face as clear, as cheerful and grave, as a Flemish angel.

[…] a sloppy blond boy, rosy-cheeked and gum-chewing, with a relentlessly cheery demeanor and his fists thrust deep in the pockets of his knee-sprung trousers.

Angular and elegant, he was precariously thin, with nervous hands and a shrewd albino face and a short, fiery mop of the reddest hair I had ever seen.

[…] he was quite large, well over six feet - was dark-haired, with a square jaw and coarse pale skin. He might have been handsome had his features
been less set, or his eyes, behind the glasses, less expressionless and blank.

It was a small, wise face, as alert and poised as a question; and though certain features of it were suggestive of youth - the elfin upsweep of the
eyebrows, the deft lines of nose and jaw and mouth - it was by no means a young face, and the hair was snow white.

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