#beauty

How are you feeling?" I leaned away from him. "Gross." Aiden frowned. "Gross?" "I haven't brushed my teeth or washed my face in days. Don't come near me." He laughed. "Alex, come on." "Seriously, I'm gross." I put my hand over my mouth. Ignoring my protests, he leaned over and brushed my string hair back. "You're as beautiful as always, Alex." I stared at him. He must not get out much. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#alex #funny #humor #sarcasm #beauty

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#beauty #eyes #fear #five #going

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#happiness #indecision #journey #regret #beauty

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace. ↗

— Natalie Lloyd

#eiffel-tower #lace #observation #paris #steel

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#certainly #deserve #doors #even #got

And then there was Jacob, who stepped closer to me and then waited, letting me decide whether I would take the next step. Balanced there in indecision, it was as if the Twisted Sisters were before me, shaking their pom-poms, asking: But what is fair about staying with a guy who is ashamed to be seen with you? What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than mutual respect. ↗

— Justina Chen

#beauty

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world . . . ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#heart #humanity #liberty #love #machines

I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#women-s-liberation #women-s-strength #beauty

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#awww-i-love-this-one #beautiful #heartbreaking #beauty

There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible. ↗

— Kelly Keaton

#heroes #possible #beauty