#creatures

If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#kami-garcia #margaret-stohl #beauty

Pete et Invienies. ↗

— Margaret Stohl

#beauty

All this is on a strictly need-to-know basis. As in, nobody else needs to know. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

...to see a girl who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#hauntingly-beautiful #love #love-story #magic #beauty

It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#kami-garcia #pretend #beauty

There is a nocturna for every single person in the world! And each night the nocturni sip dreams from the River of Knowledge, and fly out into the world, and deliver them to their humans. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#dreams #dreams

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#freedom #freedom

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#human-nature #monsters #warnings #nature

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#comes #constantly #creatures #existent #finding