She was still on the stairs, now she reached the landing, and the ragbag colors of her boy’s hair, tawny streaks, strands of albino-blond and yellow, caught the hall light. It was a warm evening, nearly summer, and she wore a slim cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker. For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap and lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening in the cheeks. Her mouth was large, her nose upturned. A pair of dark glasses blotted out her eyes. It was a face beyond childhood, yet this side of belonging to a woman.

 – Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) by Truman Capote

Bibliography:
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2000. Print.

Image Credit:
Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) from Pinterest