#be

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly. It is beautiful that they have to disappear. It's like the time you said I love you madly. That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year. ↗

— Frederick Seidel

#love #poetry #beauty

If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#kami-garcia #margaret-stohl #beauty

There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck." ↗

— Kami Garcia

#first-lines #opening-lines #beauty

Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#imperfect #interesting #odd #beauty

I realized my room was just next to hers. It was a mirror image of her room, but completely different in all of the ways that couldn't be seen. This shower hadn't washed away our pretenses last night; we hadn't slept together, curled around each other in this bed. These walls hadn't been filled with the sounds of her coming apart beneath me. This desk wasn't broken from a late-morning quickie. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#beauty

I woke up when my pillow was yanked out from under my head and Chloe mumbled something incoherent about spinach and hot dogs. The woman was a sleep-talking, restless bed hog. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#humour #beauty

How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying? ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#beauty

I just wanted to be where you were, whatever that mean. The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautifuldisaster #jamie-mcguire #t #beauty

There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don’t have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You could dip your toe into humanity’s maelstrom from time to time, or sit on the river bank and observe. ↗

— Celia Stander

#isolation #philosophy #beauty