#ok

My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre? ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#genre #beauty

When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#pasta #music

I just met you and I'm amazed by your already. Your beauty has me blind to all others. My eyes will always find you in a crowd. My favorite part of the day is when I get to hear your laugh. One day you'll let someone in and he'll be a lucky bastard. One day you are going to discover how beautiful and strong you are. I hope that I'm standing right next to you holding your hand when you do. ↗

— Kimberly Lauren

#beauty

Your voice is a little like cocaine. You could bottle that stuff up and sell it. ↗

— Kimberly Lauren

#beauty

He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those beautiful hands. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#character #charismatic #inner #looks #mappereance

(speaking of insecurity) "It's broken greater spirits than ours, and robbed the world of God knows how much beauty. I've seen it happen more times than I like to think about." --"$10,000 A Year, Easy ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#insecurity #beauty

One morning early, I couldn't sleep, so I walked down to the beach. And I saw you. For a minute- I didn't realize it was you. You were wearing this long scarf thing tied around your waist, lots of wild colors, and it blew around your legs. You had on a red bathing suit under it." "You..." She literally had to catch her breath. "You remember what I was wearing?" "Yes I do. And I remember your hair was longer than it is now, halfway down your back. All those mad curls flying. Bare feet. All that golden skin, wild colors, mad curls. My heart just stopped. I thought: That's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. And I wanted that woman, in a way I'd never wanted one before." He stopped, turned a little as she simply stared at him. "Then I saw it was you. You walked off, down the beach, the surf foaming up over your bare feet, your ankles, your calves. And I wanted you. I thought I'd lost my my mind. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#jack-cooke #beauty

...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful... ↗

— John Geddes

#cigarette #shaft #smoke #sunlight #beauty

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas ↗

— Langston Hughes

#kansas #suffering #beauty

Sunny was a treat to read. It is most appealing as the story is very well done and the artwork is beautiful. I applaud the author for writing a book to meet the needs of very young children as well as children of elementary school age. I experienced many different feelings as I read the book and I know otehrs will experience the same thing. The guide to further discussion at the end of teh book will be most helpful as foster parents read this story to the children in their care. ↗

— Theresa MacInnis Schimmel

#children-s-literature #emotional #foster-care #foster-children #age