#fr

...but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God... ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#franny-and-zooey #j-d-salinger #jd-salinger #life #literature

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. ↗

— Helen Keller

#beauty

I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs to take the plunge, to dive off headfirst and let the feeling of control evaporate on the wind. And part of me wants to be in a place where I'd never have to worry about that choice--or any choice. Where peace and calm are the only things I'd feel. ↗

— Jocelyn Davies

#beauty

Hope is a most beautiful drug. ↗

— Jeremy Mercer

#paris #poets #writers #beauty

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#french-revolution #ya-novel #beauty

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#class-struggle #excess #french-revolution #grandeur #louis-xiv

Je ne regrette rein. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#french #nothing #regret #beauty

We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #beauty

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it. ↗

— Henry James

#the-wings-of-the-dove #beauty

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#frightful #nasty #object #prettiest #ugly