#beau

As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful". Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#lost-boys #tiger-lily #ugly #beauty

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#good-and-evil #beauty

When he put the old-fashioned mechanical toy on her palm, she stopped breathing. It was a tiny representation of an atom, complete with colored ball bearings standing in for neutrons, protons, and on the outside, arranged on arcs of fine wire, electrons. Turning the key on the side made the electrons move, what she’d thought were ball bearings actually finely crafted spheres of glass that sparked with color. A brilliant, thoughtful, wonderful gift for a physics major. “Why magnesium?” she asked, identifying the atomic number of the light metal. His hand on her jaw, his mouth on her own. “Because it’s beautifully explosive, just like my X. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#explosive #hawke #lovers #sienna #beauty

For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#beauty

A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#carnival #ferris-wheel #forest #werewolf #wolf

I know my best angles. ↗

— Scarlet Johannson

#beauty

Och, Sarah, how shall I call augh’ beautiful again unless it be the sight of you? ↗

— Pamela Clare

#beauty #defiant #beauty

That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#the-cure #beauty

You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you. Antoine de Saint Exupéry ↗

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

#beauty

Beauty is truth, truth beauty ↗

— John Keats

#truth #beauty