#be

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#stars #beauty

I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die! ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#happiness #hope #society #beauty

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world! ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#beauty

Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#handsome #beauty

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood ↗

— Margaret Stohl

#darkness #light #beauty

Shut up," Daniel said, but he said it softly and so tenderly that Luce suprised both of them by obeying. "I don't think you're stupid." He closed his eyes "I think you're the smartest person I know. And the kindest. And..." he swallowed, opening his eyes to look directly at her - "the most beautiful. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#sweet-talk #beauty

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims... ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#flowers #midnight #beauty

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates. ↗

— Kate Angell

#inner-beauty #beauty