#beau

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beauty

My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #beauty

Luca saw her bloodstained hands as the clerk bound them with a rope, and Luca realized that she was a thing of horror, a beautiful thing of horror, the worst thing between heaven and hell: a fallen angel. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#beauty

She is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendor with which she shines. For she is terrible with the terror of the avenging lightning, and gentle with the goodness of the bright sun; and both her terror and her gentleness are incomprehensible to humans.... But she is with everyone and in everyone, and so beautiful is her secret that no person can know the sweetness with which she sustains people, and spares them in inscrutable mercy. ↗

— Hildegard of Bingen

#beauty

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#dignity #joy #love #peace #precious

They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children. ↗

— Adam Gidwitz

#courage #strength-of-character #beauty

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#concussion #simplicity #beauty

The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#revival #time #beauty

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#beauty