#mo

There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me. Not me. Not me. Not me. ↗

— Alison McGhee

#moving-on #sisters #beauty

Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster whirling. Her deepest impulse was to nurture, to simply dwell; it had nothing to do with ambition and achievement in the world...How had I come to believe that my world of questing and writing was more valuable than her dwelling and domestic artistry?...I wanted to go out and do things--write books, speak out. I've been driven by that. I don't know how to rest in myself very well, how to be content staying put. But Mother knows how to BE at home--and really, to be in herself. It's actually very beautiful what she does...I think part of me just longs for the way Mother experiences home. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#motherhood #beauty

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#beauty

Will you love me enough? ↗

— Ana Monnar

#love #quote #romance #love

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#beauty

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#beauty

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#contradictions #i #live #most #people

Diamonds are beautiful and sparkling because they are flawless, Utau's strong determination and her readiness make her shine, Being the way you are now, Can you possibly shine? ↗

— Dia from Shugo Chara!

#beauty

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#memory #beauty

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh? ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#beauty