#u

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#first-love #morning #beauty

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ↗

— David Hume

#beholder #evil #god #perception #religion

The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #beauty

I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#ethan #lena #beauty

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#inspirational #love #beauty

You're going to come to a lot of intersections in your life, Natalie, roads and otherwise, and you can't always just turn around. You have to summon the courage to go forward. ↗

— Pricilla Cummings

#courage #life #moving-forward #roads #courage

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#imagination #proust #women #beauty

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#courage

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly! ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #carpe-diem #dying #holding-hands #laughter