#awe

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful ↗

— Jenny Han

#love #we-ll-always-have-summer #beauty

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗

— Patti Smith

#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity. ↗

— Diana Palmer

#silence #beauty

The new girl looked up and caught me looking at her.I looked away, but it wasbto late. I tried not to smile, but I was embarrassed, and that only made me smile more. she didn't seem to notice. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

My God, what did I do to deserve such a reward? This was how I wanted to wake for the rest of my existence: Rose's beautiful blonde hair, pouring over her shoulders and onto my arms. Her sweet scent filling my nose, her sexy body pressed into mine just right. Damn, I had never wanted anything more than I wanted her in that moment. ↗

— Tish Thawer

#mature-ya #new-adult-romance #the-rose-trilogy #tish-thawer #vampire-romance

Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#black-dawn #flame-throwers #michael-glass #shane-collins #business

Do I want to change the world? To a certain extent yeah. It needs to be changed... it needs a kick up the ass. ↗

— Green Day

#change

unless someone like you comes around, things will never change. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#movies #change

Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way. ↗

— Michael Chrichton

#change

It argued a special genius; he was clearly a case of that. The spark of fire, the point of light, sat somewhere in his inward vagueness as a lamp before a shrine twinkles in the dark perspective of a church; and while youth and early middle-age, while the stiff American breeze of example and opportunity were blowing upon it hard, had made the chamber of his brain a strange workshop of fortune. This establishment, mysterious and almost anonymous, the windows of which, at hours of highest pressure, never seemed, for starers and wonderers, perceptibly to glow, must in fact have been during certain years the scene of an unprecedented, a miraculous white-heat, the receipt for producing which it was practically felt that the master of the forge could not have communicated even with the best intentions. ↗

— Henry James

#age