#beau

Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #beauty

I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#ugly #beauty

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly... ↗

— Sappho

#compliments #beauty

Flying or falling, it's up to us. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#ethan-wate #inspirational #beauty

I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves. ↗

— Rebecca Johns

#aging-gracefully #beauty #age

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#carlos-fuentes #love #rules-of-attraction #sweet #beauty

The anger subsided, and my shoulders fell. “I know you didn’t. But you have got to curb this overprotective big-brother thing you’ve got going on.” Travis laughed once. “I’m not playing the big brother, Pigeon. Not even close. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #big-brother #jamie-mcguire #love #sweet

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

The idea of someone knowing when real love has come and gone from this life, how that person can love the memory of someone more than they could ever love again. There's no truer sign of love, nothing more beautiful, than sacrifice. ↗

— David Cristofano

#beauty

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#lyrics #melody #music #beauty