#m

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

#ends #father #grew #had #just

The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#fine-arts #life #myths #power #art

My God, what did I do to deserve such a reward? This was how I wanted to wake for the rest of my existence: Rose's beautiful blonde hair, pouring over her shoulders and onto my arms. Her sweet scent filling my nose, her sexy body pressed into mine just right. Damn, I had never wanted anything more than I wanted her in that moment. ↗

— Tish Thawer

#mature-ya #new-adult-romance #the-rose-trilogy #tish-thawer #vampire-romance

You know every story, every wound, every memory. Their whole life's happiness is wrapped up in you... every single second. Don't you get it? Look down the road to her wedding. I'm in a room alone with her, fixing her veil, fluffing her dress, telling her no woman has ever looked so beautiful. And my fear is she'll be thinking, "I wish my mom was here. ↗

— Jackie Harrison

#beauty

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#chilling #imagery #personification #beauty

Shy, all those things you listed don’t make a person. They don’t. I mean it. You’re beautiful, both inside and outside, but please don’t look at me to validate that. You have to know it for yourself. -Taylor Holden, Strapped. ↗

— Nina G. Jones

#erotica #mystery-suspense #nina-g-jones #preview #quote

I don't have a beautiful face, I don't even have that sweet smile, (it's my eyes that smile and not my lips), you just see it that way because what you're looking at is the picture in my mind! ↗

— Gina Marie G.

#smile #beauty

[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher. ↗

— Yasmin Mogahed

#society #spirituality #women #beauty

I saw wild, dangerous beauty. I saw devotion. I saw you. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#devotion #romance #beauty

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#british #celebrity #fame #irony #romance