#beauty

Most people had an acquired kind of beauty, they became better looking the longer you knew them and the better you loved them, but Cole had unfairly skipped to the end of the game, all jaggedly handsome and Hollywood-looking. Not needing any love to get there. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #beauty

When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure.....enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting...taking everything I dish out to her.....at that moment she is never more beautiful to me. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#beauty

Kishan spoke intently, "Kelsey is all that a man could ask for. She's perfect for you. She loves poetry and sits endlessly content while listening to you sing and play your guitar. She waited months for you to come after her, and she has risked her life repeatedly to save your mangy white hide. She's sweet and loving and warm and beautiful and would make you immeasurably happy." There was a pause. Then I heard Ren say incredulously, "You love her." Kishan didn't answer right away, but then said softly, almost so I couldn't hear it, "No man in his right mind wouldn't, which proves you aren't in your right mind. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#kishan #ren #beauty

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#life #life-view #beauty

People Die... Beauty Fades... Love Changes... And You Will Always Be Alone ↗

— L.J. Smith

#creepy #dark #loneliness #love #lovely

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. the new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open. ↗

— Stephen Russell

#taoism #vulnerability #beauty

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ↗

— Elise Boulding

#frugality #happiness #beauty

You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#livia-and-blake #love #romance #beauty

Beauty is finding the right fit, the natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself ― avoid trying to be someone you're not ↗

— Rick Riordan

#piper-mclean #the-lost-hero #beauty

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. ↗

— Simone Weil

#mysticism #beauty