#m

His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just hadn't realised before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?" Once the words slipped out, I worried that he might take my implusive observation the wrong way. But Jacob rolled his eyes. "You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?" "I'm serious." Well, then, thanks. Sort of." I grinned. "You're sort of welcome. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#bella-swan #jacob-black #male-beauty #new-moon #beauty

There is no beauty without some strangeness ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed-to-poe #misquote #beauty

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#sleep #waking-up #beauty

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#emotion #empathy #beauty

I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#math-humor #stupid #beauty

For a day, just for one day, Talk about that which disturbs no one And bring some peace into your Beautiful eyes. ↗

— حافظ

#life #peace #beauty

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement of the debate with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010) ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#critical-thinking #independent-thought #truth #wisdom #beauty

What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#beauty

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #books #chaos #life #music

There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be; its only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#beauty