#true

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #books #classics #creativity

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

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

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

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you? ↗

— Justina Chen

#so-true #beauty

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#rebel #true-beauty #universal #universal-beauty #beauty