#queen

Your Majesty, I'm afraid everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong," said Major Sir Michael Parker, an impresario for royal events with an expertise in pyrotechnics. "Oh good, what fun!" she replied with a smile. ↗

— Sally Bedell Smith

#queen-elizabeth #attitude

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. ↗

— Anne Rice

#anne-rice #lestat-de-lioncourt #queen-of-the-damned #beauty

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants. ↗

— Libba Bray

#libba-bray #queen #beauty

Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#real #beauty

O Hathor,” Cleo began, “why bless me with an abundance of gorgeousness and then deprive me of people to envy it? Especially on a Saturday night? ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#cleo #hator #queen #beauty

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#madonna #queen #statues #beauty

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#king-and-queens-of-roam #life #change

I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I think it's a long way from here. I'm Nicole Ade. Miss Colorado. We have a Colorado where we're from too! Tiara said. She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Kipa aloha. Nicole stared. I speak English. I'm American. Also, did you learn those moves from Barbie's Hawaiian Vacation DVD? Ohmigosh, yes! Do your people have that, too? ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty-queens #hawaii #beauty

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days. ↗

— Victoria Hanley

#grief #mourning #queen #death

You may come as a proud prince today young Habsburg. But you shall travel many more roads in Castile in death than you ever will in life ↗

— C.W. Gortner

#the-last-queen #death