#wood

~ The One Who Loves You As You Are ~ As beautiful as a starlit sky As delicate as a lotus blossom As deep as still clear water As priceless as your soul As mysterious as the universe As loving as love itself Know this, You are worthy to be truly loved You are worth fighting for! ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#womankind #womansong #beauty

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#emotional #norwegian-wood #beauty

She tried to break from his hold, and he tightened his grip. “You’re safe. I killed the rogues.” The woman stilled and searched his face, the wildness still heavy in her blue eyes. “You’re a wolf.” He smiled and nodded. “And you’re a tiger.” “A white tiger.” To match her white-blond hair. “And a beautiful one. ↗

— Lia Davis

#ashwood-falls #lia-davis #romance #shapeshifter #beauty

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#beautiful #beauty

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. ↗

— Lionel Barrymore

#discovered #dying #half #hollywood #other

She talked thus, bent double, shaken with sobs, blinded by tears, her neck bare, clenching her hands, coughing with a dry and short cough, stammering very feebly with an agonised voice. Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. At that moment Fantine had again become beautiful. At certain instants she stopped and tenderly kissed the policeman’s coat. She would have softened a heart of granite; but you cannot soften a heart of wood ↗

— Victor Hugo

#heart-of-granite #heart-of-wood #beauty

The change ↗

— Heywood plans

#change

But you… you have no fucking clue how unbelievably beautiful and desirable you are. You’re not calculating and selfish. And you make me want to be better. --Woods ↗

— Abbi Glines

#della-sloane #romance #woods-kerington #beauty

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#humor #love #poisonwood-bible #business

Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew more about your neighbors' business than you wanted to. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#apartment #cassandra-clare #city-of-lost-souls #funny #humor