#beautiful

How could such a beautiful man be insecure? ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#insecure #beauty

Things don’t have to be extraordinary to be beautiful. Even the ordinary can be beautiful. ↗

— Wicker Park

#extraordinary #ordinary #things #beauty

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston. ↗

— George Orwell

#beauty #fat #inspirational #style #beauty

Remember that you don't owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful. ↗

— Emy Storey

#don-t-apologize #emy-storey #lgbt #tegan-and-sara #you-are-who-you-are

I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he's looking at me thinking i'm wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, 'Beautiful' and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#beautiful #lena #beauty

But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" murmured Kohlrabi. Because I'd been hording words for years, buying them from peddlers and carving them secretly on bits of bark so I wouldn't forget them, and then he turned up using words like "epiphany" and "amaranth." Because I heard him talking in the marketplace, laying out sentences like a merchant rolling out rich silks. Because he made words and ideas dance like flames and something that was damp and dying came alive in my mind, the way it hadn't since they burned my father's books. Because he walked into Chough with stories from exciting places tangled around him like maypole streamers..." Mosca shrugged. "He's got a way with words. ↗

— Frances Hardinge

#fantasy #words #beauty

Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#cats #otherworld #beauty

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again. ↗

— John Connolly

#beauty

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were ↗

— Kami Garcia

#ethan-wate #beauty

Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#beautiful #beauty