For true beauty—beauty, as it were, with a capital —is terrifying; it puts us in our place; it reflects back to us our own ugliness. It is the prize beyond price.
There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted her love. That he returned it.
Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.
...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...
And fetch some straw. We’ll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn’t sleep soft tonight.” “Straw. I love luxury.
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers.
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
Don’t you ever let another put their hands on something that’s already yours, because you might end up breaking your own heart.
Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it there is someone not easily forgotten.
A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.
The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.
If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?
Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.
GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads; they need a safe place to put their glasses while they sleep.
This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
What's purple mean?" Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!
