#beau

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit. ↗

— Thea Harrison

#grace #strength #beauty

Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to. ↗

— Julie James

#beauty

Well, hell yeah! I’m gonna kick your ass, too!” I narrowed my eyes at him. “Not this time you’re not. I have a new superpower.” He laughed. “And what’s that? Harsh language?” I leaned over to kiss his neck once, and then ran my tongue up to his ear, kissing his earlobe. He froze in place. “Distraction,” I breathed into his ear. He grabbed my arms and flipped me onto my back. “You’re going to miss another class. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #distraction #jamie-mcguire #sweet #travis-maddox

True beauty lies in purity of the heart. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#beauty

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? ↗

— E.M. Forster

#beauty

Alec rolled beautiful brown eyes. "No fair playing the death card." "No fair having it to play. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#beauty

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#fish #illusions #magic #beauty

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#language #words #beauty

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God. ↗

— Max Lucado

#christian-life #christian-living #christianity #heaven #beauty

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#true-love #beauty