#beauty

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

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#girls #self-defense #beauty

Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings. ↗

— John C. Parkin

#chance #new-chance #potential #beauty

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#creation #nature #world #beauty