#mo

Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn -- can all act as touchstones when least expected. ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

#travel #courage

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#ethical #grief #jodi-picoult #life #moral

Wow Kelsey!" Kishan whistled. "I'm going to have to beat the other guys of with a stick! ↗

— Colleen Houck

#humor #tigers #tigers-curse #beauty

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#daily #die #life #live #moment

Got it. Demon. Death. Doom. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#humor #beauty

Truth is beauty ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#block #clique #crown #forgiveness #life

Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful. ↗

— Michael Buckley

#beauty

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible. ↗

— James Joyce

#woman #beauty

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

— Zadie Smith

#beauty