#beau

Jag vill, i mitt liv, få älska någon som älskar mig. ↗

— Jonas Gardell

#love #beauty

Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#blood-vessels #dissolve #infusion #reading #sentences

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.] ↗

— Ann Patchett

#beauty

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#honesty #beauty

The Winter Prince was before me, with his noble, knightly bearing and the impossible beauty that is paralytic at close range. And I wanted nothing more than to vanish into his arms, and his embrace, but I saw the look on his face and I remembered then that he was my enemy and that there was only one thing to do. Run. ↗

— Kailin Gow

#paranormal-romance #beauty

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#beauty

It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic. ↗

— Jason Fried

#beauty

It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#beauty

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#career #discrimination #empowerment #equality #jobs

Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#beauty #beauty