#cal

I'm fat," she blurted out. "You are not fat. You're the most beautiful, voluptuous woman I know." His eyes moved down her body, deliberately, slowly, then back up to her face. What she saw in them sent fire squirming through her stomach and lower. "I want every inch of you," he said, growling it. "I want to fall on my knees and worship at your hips." He reach out, shaped her curves from breast to hips with a burning sweep of his hand that a man was allowed to give only his wife. ↗

— Eloisa James

#olivia #quin #beauty

Beauty isn’t physical — it’s an reflection of what’s on the inside. ↗

— Laurie Buchanan

#physical-appearance #reflection #beauty

Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow. ↗

— Cedric Nye

#choices #truth #zombie-apocalypse #zombie-fighter-jango #zombies

She felt oddly safe with him, though not safe from him. ↗

— Linda Howard

#dreams

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#boldness #calling #destiny #faith #imperfection

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins. ↗

— Harshit Walia

#indian-fiction #inner-beauty #journey #life #philosophical

She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that woman should be. ↗

— Karen Andreola

#beauty

Faith is never identical with piety. ↗

— Karl Barth

#identical #never #piety

What she knew was sand and wind and innumerable stars. The rumble in a camel’s throat as it swayed over shifting dunes, its trappings jingling in time with its steps beneath her. She knew the sting of thirst and the taste of dried fruit, the glare of sun and the frigid, bone-numbing cold of the air when the sun gave her throne over to the moon. She knew that, to survive, one must often revise one’s caliber, and one must completely depend upon Jesus Christ. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#courage #historical #courage

Sandy: "Are you making fun of me, Riz? " Rizzo: "Some people are so touchy. ↗

— Ron De Christoforo

#music