“Jacob: "Let her stare." Terra: "What?" Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.” SmileCuriousCopingStrangersStare Book:North of Beautiful Source: North of Beautiful
“This is beautiful," I said, ignoring the shop window to trace the gleaming stone walls fronting another boutique. "You know what's funny?" Jacob asked. He didn't wait for my answer. "You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself." *** I swallowed hard. Erik thought my body was beautiful, Karin that it was enviable. At random times, people had noted that my hands were beautiful, or my hair. The Twisted Sisters had called my art beautiful. Mom had the best intentions and always told me before and after my laser surgeries that I would be beautiful. But no one had ever said that I was beautiful, all my parts taken together, not just the bits and pieces.” Beauty Book:North of Beautiful Source: North of Beautiful
“I didn’t have the language to communicate that to this little girl - or to communicate that beauty - real, everlasting beauty - lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.” BeautySelf Acceptance Author:Justina Chen Headley
“Maybe that was the problem," Jacob said softly. "Don't we all need to feel needed? That we'd be missed if we were gone?” NeededMissedFeeling Needed Book:North of Beautiful Source: North of Beautiful
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed?” ArtRidiculeArtistsLaughablePushing The LimitsMemorable Works Book:North of Beautiful Source: North of Beautiful