#beast

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#beastly #better #business #even #exist

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#beastly #books #friendship #loneliness #reading

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#beast #controlling #dark #dark side #each

This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#belly #couple #drank #hounds #like

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#certainly #compound #everywhere #fallen #fiend

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. ↗

— Jules Renard

#beasts #distinguishes #finally #financial #i

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#beauty #beauty-and-the-beast #love #reasoning #trust

Surface beauty: blond hair, blue eyes" - she was looking at me - "is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see." - Kendra Hilferty ↗

— Alex Flinn

#kendra-hilferty #witch #beauty

...So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know. I have never known such happiness, shot through with such misery. Only four days have passed, they tell me. But that is not true. It has been decades since I saw you last. You will find me a stooped old man when we meet again. Perhaps I might even need a pair of spectacles to recognize your veil. But I remain always, Your servant, C. One of Christian's onesided letters to the Baroness ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#christian #sherry-thomas #beauty

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. ↗

— Criss Jami

#authority #beast #boldness #conquering #courage