#oh

If anyone had bothered to notice me, they would only see a scared fifteen-year-old girl with eyes of sable ringed by kohl liner and black hair that fell to her waist. They wouldn't see someone struggling to remain sane. Only an empty space where a real girl used to live. ↗

— Sherry Soule

#sherry-soule #shiloh #beauty

Screw all that Incubus crap. That's how you do it Mortal-style. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#kami-garcia #link #linkubus #margaret-stohl #beauty

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#drinking #youth #beauty

We have seen these bodies, she would think, and even long after we are gone some particle in the universe will hold a memory of the words we once used to describe their beauty. ↗

— Lydia Millet

#beauty

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill! ↗

— James Thomas Fields

#down #home #mill #oh #under

All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers. ↗

— Ole Gunnar Håland

#dust #writing #beauty

And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchling. *You* are the chrysalis. *You* are the progeny. *You* are the rot that falls from the stars. All of us--you and I and poor, dear Pellinore. Behold the face of the magnificum, child. And despair." Though I was sickened by the sight, I looked. In the bower of the beast at the top of the world, I beheld the face of the magnificum, and I did not turn away. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#john-kearns #magnificum #pellinore-warthrop #spoiler #the-beast

Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#beauty

That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #business

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that. ↗

— John Green

#green #hero #heroism #john #waters