#beauty

So what, you assumed you’d show up before the dance and I’d magically be ready to go? I need warning to get beautiful. ↗

— S.M. Reine

#dance #beauty

I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers of a quivering heart. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#beauty

How I wish you could have known me in my strength. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #grace #inspirational

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#cosmetic #happiness #like

beauty remains, even in misfortune ↗

— Anne Frank

#beauty

There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer — a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters. ↗

— Tom Neale

#beauty

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. ↗

— George Saunders

#nature #silence #beauty

Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #peeta #beauty

The new girl looked up and caught me looking at her.I looked away, but it wasbto late. I tried not to smile, but I was embarrassed, and that only made me smile more. she didn't seem to notice. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#beauty