#beauty

Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#blood-vessels #dissolve #infusion #reading #sentences

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. ↗

— Albert Camus

#beauty

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#beauty

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#beauty

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#poetry #beauty

I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself known. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#everything-happens-for-a-reason #beauty

She'd proven to be one of the most aggravating people I'd ever met. Unfortunately for me, she was also the best sex I'd ever had. Fuck, he'd better never get that far. I wasn't sure I knew where to hide a body around here. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#humour #beauty

Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya. ↗

— Miranda Hart

#humourous-situations #beauty

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#goodness #beauty

- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#mother #women #beauty