Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"It's not a matter of bein' only clean, though that's a whole
lot. Lots of women are clean. It ain't that. It's something more,
an' different. It's . . . well, it's the look of it, so white, an'
pretty, an' tasty. It gets on the imagination. It's something I
can't get out of my thoughts of you. I want to tell you lots of
men can't strip to advantage, an' lots of women, too. But
you--well, you're a wonder, that's all, and you can't get too
many of them nice things to suit me, and you can't get them too
nice.