#ma

His eyebrows pulled in. “You won’t leave me, right? Even when I’m a pain in the ass?” “I vowed in front of God – and Elvis – that I wouldn’t, didn’t I? ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #elvis #funny #jamie-mcguire #love

Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something. ↗

— Tara Kelly

#reality #beauty

You're so beautiful. I can't believe you're almost mine. ↗

— Debra White Smith

#beauty

Nerd love. It's a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#beauty

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good... ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#feminine #inspirational #love #magical #beauty

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty ↗

— Kevin Aucoin

#karma #truth #beauty

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else. ↗

— Libba Bray

#gemma-doyle #inspiration #beauty

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it. ↗

— Libba Bray

#details #gemma-doyle #libba-bray #truth #beauty

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#body #breakfast-of-champions #chemicals #human #kurt-vonnegut