Quotes of: Beautiful-things Keyword

I hear Warner laugh. I see him smile. It's the kind of smile that transforms him into someone else entirely, the kind of smile that puts stars in his eyes and a dazzle on his lips and I realize I've never seen him like this before. I've never seen hi...

Unravel Me

Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are ...

Zombies Vs. Unicorns

I remembered Ignifex's smirk and his confident words: I can wait all I want and still have you. And I thought, Here is one thing he isn't getting. Standing on my toes, I kissed Shade on the lips. It was just a bump of my face against his. Despite Aun...

Cruel Beauty

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhapp...

Teller

It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This i...

C. JoyBell C.

Roses are picked every day, they are told that they will be better off sold in the flower shoppe. And so they go from the hands of the picker; to the hands of the delivery man; to the hands of the florist; to the hands of the customer; and then often...

C. JoyBell C.

Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was...

Jonathan Safran Foer

[Carolyn is introducing Lester to the Real Estate King] Carolyn Burnham: My husband, Lester. Buddy Kane: It's a pleasure. Lester Burnham: Oh, we've met before, actually. This thing last year, Christmas at the Sheraton... Buddy Kane: [pretends to reme...

American Beauty

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

New England

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

Complete Verse

Rules help us live our lives when we lose the will to do it on our own

Dead Beautiful

Witty people came out in autumn; beauties in July.

Dancer from the Dance

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

Devil in Winter

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...

A Familiar Rain

And warns us to use life’s beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.

Fasti

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.

The Greenlanders

I held a precious, beautiful butterfly in my hands but let it get away.

His Ever After

There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.

Awakening