#beauty

Beauty is the illumination of your soul. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#soul #beauty

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #glib #humorous #infenal-devices #jam

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#irony #knowledge #beauty

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. ↗

— George Orwell

#beauty

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #beauty

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fullmetal-alchemist #world #beauty

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#curses #beauty

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#love #pain #poetry #truth #beauty

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#hate #love #poetry #shakespeare #beauty