#beau

Every person has a beautiful and sad story to share. Why stop at one story when you can roam the lives of another? ↗

— Evie Lynn Fritz

#beauty

I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me. ↗

— Justina Chen

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Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#heaven #l-m-montgomery #beauty

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were. ↗

— Robert Walser

#commandment #doorway #eyes #you #beauty

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance. ↗

— Jane Austen

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There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to. ↗

— Amy Reed

#beauty

...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#friendship #separation #beauty

Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty—stupid me for going along with it. ↗

— Marni Bates

#mackenzie-wellesley #society #beauty

Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful. ↗

— Kristen Reed

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Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die. ↗

— Meredith Ann Pierce

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