#or

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

#ends #father #grew #had #just

That's why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn't want money because money was power; she wanted it because she'd been poor, and money cures poverty. [...] But beauty is like money from God. And Mom has always been beautiful. ↗

— Sean Wilsey

#money #poor #rich #beauty

Beauty isn’t all about tooth whiteners, hard abs, and hundred-dollar lipstick. Beauty is about growing old together, remembering when together, laughing together. If my picture disgusts you, fine. Go look at the faces of women who named a price you can buy them for. I’m not the kind of woman who will ever be for sale, and shame on you for not expecting more from a woman, or from yourself. ↗

— Virginia Nelson

#contemporary-romance #romance #beauty

Keep smiling the world needs beautiful thinks! ↗

— R.E.S. Tidmore

#beauty

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #james-potter #remus-lupin #sirius-black #snape

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#life #paranormal-romance #life

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ↗

— Atwood H. Townsend

#study #willful-ignorance #business

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor #live-in-the-moment #business

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#business

Are you sleeping with anyone?” The question was asked so casually it took a second to process what he’d said. I inhaled sharply. “Why is that any business of yours?” He looked at me and I saw what I’d seen the first time we’d met—tremendous power and steely control. Both of which had me taking an involuntary step back. Again. At least I didn’t fall this time; I was making progress. “Because I want to fuck you, Eva. I need to know what’s standing in my way, if anything. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#gideon-cross #business