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Why would I go look at other women when the most beautiful woman in the world shares my bed every night?” he protested, kissing her lightly. - Gabriel Emerson ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#romance #beauty

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God. ↗

— Rob Bell

#religon #beauty

I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#obsession #beauty

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration. ↗

— Abigail Tarttelin

#beautiful #commercial #fiction #identity #intersex

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#observation #beauty

So that was Chris and her reading and schooling, two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart and tormented her. You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learning was brave and fine one day; and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you and the smell of the earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of it and the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies. ↗

— Lewis Grassic Gibbon

#beauty

Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently holds you in the safe haven of the present without allowing you to become overwhelmed with what may or may not be waiting in the future. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#courage-fear-inspirational #joy #mindfulness #pain #courage

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#byron #dreams

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. ↗

— Holly Black

#contempt #trade #beauty

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act. From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars ↗

— Rivera Sun

#courage #inspirational #life #philosophy #protest-novel