# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Stardust

> By the time Victoria was seventeen, and Tristan also, she was in all probability, he was certain, the most beautiful girl in the British Isles. Tristran would have insisted on the most beautiful girl in the entire British Empire, if not the world, and boxed you, or been prepared to, had you argued with him. You would have been hard-pressed to find anyone in Wall who would have argued with him, though; she turned many heads and, in all probability, broke many hearts.

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Stardust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/by-the-time

## More from this book

> I ran from him. But he found me and bound me with an obligation, which binds my kind more securely than any chain ever could.

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> Every boy in the village was in love with Victoria Forester. And many a sedate gentleman, quietly married with grey in his beard, would stare at her as she walked down the street, becoming, for a few moments, a boy once more, in the spring of his years with a spring in his step.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/every-boy-in-the.md)

> "And if I brought you the fallen star?" asked Tristran lightly. "What would you give me? A kiss? Your hand in marriage?"
>
> "Anything you desire", said Victoria, amused.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/and-if-i-brought.md)