The Beautiful and the Damned

"At any rate she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair."
— Oscar Wilde

When we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we’ve never crossed before.

― Ursula K. Le Guin