#beauty

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#beauty #conciousness #contempt #create #creative

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way. ↗

— Tana French

#confidence #intelligence #ugly #beauty

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words. ↗

— Rachel Kadish

#beauty

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#act #attain #beauty #chaos #convert

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#beauty #brains #bright #four #future

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#beauty #cherishing #grace #grief #hurt

I just want to see you come apart." I wanted to tell her that she was witnessing it now, and in all honesty she'd been watching it happen for weeks. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#sweet #beauty

no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me ↗

— Kami Garcia

#know #light #me #no #you

...There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no. ↗

— Libba Bray

#sexuality #whore #beauty