#he

One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home. ↗

— Jacqueline Kelly

#peach-pits #peaches #reading #white-knights #life

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everything #heavy #never #nothing #tired

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#mind #real #what-is-on-the-inside #beauty

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#being-yourself #inspirational #life #beauty

With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, “Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#beauty

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

So you like her and you're scared. Now what?" "Nothing. It just sucks that I finally found the girl worth having and she's too good for me. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#clothes #beauty

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #sam-gamgee #tolkien #beauty