#beau

Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#attractiveness #beauty

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#beauty

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#luke-garroway #beauty

Beauty is the illumination of your soul. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#soul #beauty

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #glib #humorous #infenal-devices #jam

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#books #else #furnishes #furniture #house

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#irony #knowledge #beauty

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. ↗

— George Orwell

#beauty

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #beauty

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty