#beauty

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.' 'Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#beauty #bewitched #fairy-tales #unbelief #beauty

John Keats once wrote to a friend of his named Bailey "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affection and the truth to Imagination - What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#beauty

She reached out her arms to Blackie. The beautiful siren was calling her weary sailor safely to port. ↗

— Karen Cecil Smith

#beauty

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ... ↗

— Dan Simmons

#compass #love #meaning #beauty

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#clock #country #drive #five #i

He slid over to me and grabbed me closer to him. My smile fell from my face with the unexpectedness of it. His hands cupped my face, his lips hovering above mine. “You seriously want to know, Tess?” He closed the space and claimed my mouth with an urgent, hot, delving kiss. He smiled. “You are sexy, in your own goofball way, you’re sweet and beautiful and smart and funny and, although you kiss to the point where I feel like I want to go back for seconds, you’re my best friend, and that’s why I don’t want to tap that. ↗

— C.J. Duggan

#boys #romance #summer #young-adult #beauty

As the blood poured from his tattered heart into the open air and his brain suffocated, all those incomplete thoughts of Wittgenstein decayed with the dying neurons. Neural connections in the gray matter storing memories and ideas in their ordered configurations fired across the gaps, last gaps of mental life. Thoughts on Truth and Will were erased as flesh sloshed soft and limp against alabaster, no more than rotting human fruit. ↗

— Janna Levin

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This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#beauty #created #creation #everything #general

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. ↗

— Gustav Stickley

#built #cabin #elements #house #idea

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#beautiful #beauty #call #field #film