#rue

Fury ignited behind my breastbone , a hot glow like coals blooming into something sharp and dangerous. It was the same old crap- someone thinking they can push you around because you're young, because you're helpless. You had to just sit there and take it because you were under a certain number , because you weren't a real person yet; you could be picked up and dropped like a toy, left behind or thrown away... ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#sad #teen #true #life

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting! ↗

— David Sedaris

#brueghel #museums #proof #art

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#friar-lawrence #love #romeo-and-juliet #shakespeare #tragedy

The best way to teach a child abuser to stop abusing is not counseling. It is not therapy. It is a mouth full of broken teeth and arms that, when the bones heal, cannot produce the force necessary to hit or burn another child. ↗

— Ryan Sayles

#art

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#love #love at first sight #love is #only #second

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#cruelty #love #beauty

But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#hunger-games #katniss-everdeen #rue #beauty

We can’t get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#beauty

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#true-love #beauty

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #true #beauty