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“I have never seen such beauty as beholding a newborn baby.”

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“You don’t notice the moment it starts. Only when stopping feels impossible.”

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Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1

“Uncomfortable.Lord. I’ve been doing the comfortable thing my whole life, it seems like. And what did it get me? I think it’s about time I did something a little uncomfortable.”

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Source: On the Steamy Side

“Every book grants you the language you need to make contact with something you had no idea even existed: a tree’s pores, a fox’s nose, sadness on a face, a nation’s suffering. Look how beautiful you look as you read.”

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“Her nose was crooked, as though it might have been broken a couple of times. She also had a broken tooth and her hand was in a bandage. She was still beautiful. She refused to stop being beautiful. No matter what men did to her, no matter how many times she was knocked down the stairs. The same reason she was still beautiful was the same reason she was here. She was resilient. She refused to be ugly.”

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“I felt no honor and no beauty, even though I was a queen. There were the frivolities, the attendant charms and the decorations of this life, but nothing really filled my heart.”

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Book:Fourteen Springs of Separation

Source: Fourteen Springs of Separation

“I drove all the way to Cape Disappointment but didn't have the energy to get out of the car. Rental. Blue Ford Focus. I had to stop in a semi-public place to pee on the ground. Just squatted there on the roadside. I don't know what's up with my bladder. I pee and then I have to pee and pee again. Instead of sightseeing I climbed into the back seat of the car and took a nap. I'm a little like Frank O'Hara without the handsome nose and penis and New York School and Larry Rivers. Paid for a day pass at Cape Disappointment thinking hard about that long drop from the lighthouse to the sea. Thought about going into the Ocean Medical Center for a checkup but how do I explain this restless search for beauty or relief?”

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Book:frank: sonnets

Source: frank: sonnets

“It's a shame she's so disgraceful, Kitty thought. She really is quite lovely. Then again, Kitty considered, perhaps moral rectitude and dazzling beauty could scarcely coexist in the same person. Not, any rate, in a person like Mary Jane.”

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Book:The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place

Source: The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place

“Immigration is learning to stretch into a bridge, backward and forward, one limb in each place, learning to hold tight to traditions and customs and names and memories in one hand, and with the other hand let go and lean in to a place you hope will see you for all the beauty that you bring.”

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Book:Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice

Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice

“I'm thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful.”

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“In the end, people are only able to think and feel within the limits of the "system", the specific culture of the society they belong to. Notions like artistic value and beauty are inevitably shackled by that system, and even the words we use are dictated by it.”

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Book:The Mill House Murders

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