#ty

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

This is just the way life is – sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful, all the time confusing and frightening and exhilarating – and we just have to deal with it. That’s what freedom is. ↗

— Chloe Rattray

#life #beauty

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#love-story #quote #romance #the-viscount-who-loved-me #true

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#anger #ashamed #contempt #hate #hearts

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#hated #i #know #lot #pretty

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas. ↗

— Ron D. Burton

#challenge #change #grow #ideas #improve

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#native-american #ojibwe #prophesy #treaty #money

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu... ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#coffee #travel #beauty

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#dream #people #society #two #two weeks

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. ↗

— William Burroughs

#except #finally #hemingway #him #his