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“The beauty of beginner mind is in the quality of the experience and the ability to take all you know with all your sense of wonder and possibility into discovery... Begin again.”

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“What did you think of Beatrix the first time you saw her?" Agatha stared at the candy plum in her teacher's hand. "Agatha?" "I don't know. She was beautiful, " Agatha groused, remembering their fart-filled introduction. "And now?" "She's revolting." "Has she gotten less pretty?" "No, but-" "So is she beautiful or not?" "Yes, at first sight-" "So beauty only lasts a glance?" "Not if you're a good person-" "So it's being good that matters? I thought you said it was looks. " Agatha opened her mouth. Nothing came out. "Beauty can only fight truth for so long, Agatha. You and Beatrix share more in common than you think.”

Character Beauty Good

Book:The School for Good and Evil

Source: The School for Good and Evil

“His eyes reflected the light from the hall; behind him, beyond the void, the stars burned in the enduring points; far beyond them, a telescope could have seen the maelstrom of the link, and a million more stars beyond that; and this tiny station spinning around a tiny jeweled planet like the fulcrum of the universe.”

Space Beauty

Book:Winter’s Orbit

Source: Winter’s Orbit

“I know about safe sex," Nathan said, interrupting Jack's thoughts. Jack swallowed. "That's good." He smiled at his son, vastly relieved that there would be no hard questions about his own sex life. "What I want to know is..." Nathan stole a quick look back at the tent. "Where is the clitoris exactly?" Jack's smile fell and he opened his mouth. No words came out so he closed it. Nathan had no problem forming his words, though. "And what the heck is a G-spot?”

Humor Romance

Book:Daisy's Back in Town

Source: Daisy's Back in Town

“I love a horizon. . .That feeling of longing, of mystery and distant magic, pulls always on my soul. I suppose that's where my mother must be. Roaming through the afterlight, stealing heaven. . .”

Nature Beauty Magic Horizon

Book:The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

Source: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“But your mother used to have a saying: "Pretty is pretty for a little while, but true beauty is beautiful forever." Ella pursed her lips. "How do you know if you're pretty or if you're beautiful?" "I'll give you a hint." He reaches out to playfully touch the tip of her nose. "You can't see beauty in a mirror.”

Beauty Cinderella

Book:Ella

Source: Ella

“He was gleamingly, smolderingly beautiful, like a pure medieval knight or a young King Arthur stepping off the pages of a painting. Though it was always Lancelot who was shown with fair hair like Linden's, those long strands of dark gold and amber softening the hard planes of his warrior-strong face. Did Lancelot have a mouth like Linden's? Full and strong and sensual? Suggesting unspeakable delights if one could only unlock the man who possessed it? Was it a mouth like this which undid Guinevere?”

Beauty Regency Romance Beauty And The Beast Handsome Men Regency Historical Romance Male Beauty Beauty And The Beast Retelling Romance Hero Beautiful Men Christmas Romance Novel

Book:Once Upon a Midwinter's Kiss

Source: Once Upon a Midwinter's Kiss

“A teardrop glittered like a diamond in the ring of her eye. When they're at the bottom, people fill their eyes with beautiful things. The world is full of art, it's just a matter of knowing how to look around you and then surrendering to inexhaustible whisperings, to small details, to longing and desire.”

Beauty Tears Sorrow Tragedy Catharsis Total Realism

Author:Bohumil Hrabal

“I offer a bunch of pansies, not a wreath of immortelles. I don't want everlasting flowers and I don't want to offer them to anyone else. A flower passes, and that is perhaps the best of it… don’t nail the pansy down. You won't keep it any better if you do.”

Beauty Flowers Transience

Author:D.H. Lawrence

“Ancient Greece was and is a muse because it was the first to recognize beauty and march towards it without fear.”

Beauty Ancient Greece

Book:Without the Mob, There Is No Circus

Source: Without the Mob, There Is No Circus

“He can remind himself that all beauty in plants and animals is a quiet and durable form of love and longing, and he can see the animal, as also the plant, patiently and willingly joining and multiplying and growing, not from physical pleasure, not from physical suffering, but bowing to necessities which are greater than pleasure and pain and more powerful than desire and resistance. Oh if only mankind could embrace this mystery, which penetrates the earth right into its smallest elements, with more humility, and bear and sustain it with more gravity and know how terribly heavy it is, instead of taking it lightly.”

Love Nature Beauty

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

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