#beautiful

When I am alone and my skull is ripsaw I want to jump into the womb of any bonfire, I want to leap into the ceiling fan head first, but I need that fan this coming summer. ↗

— Derrick Brown

#beauty

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong ↗

— William Nicholson

#beauty

People are beautiful wrecks. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#people #wrecks

Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells. ↗

— Mark Vonnegut

#fake #fear #people #shallow #beauty

The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths. ↗

— Julie Lessman

#descriptive-prose #beauty

Be patient, darling, and try to trust both your heavenly and your earthly father. You know that no trial can come to you without your heavenly Father's will, and that He means this for your good. Look to Him and he will help you to bear it, and send relief in His own good time and way. ↗

— Martha Finley

#beauty

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#beauty #mockery #beauty

Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women. ↗

— Elisabeth Bronfen

#beautiful #culture #death #women #art

Being pretty is its own paroxysm. ↗

— Justine Monikue

#beauty

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste. ↗