“It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard.”
Source: Shatter Me
“Marveling at the perfection of that leaf, I was reminded that aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“What are we to do about the cliched beauty of an ostentatious sunset?”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. [...] We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.”
Source: The Secret History
“Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and this makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europe. This is why, Barzini says, Italians will tolerate hideously incompetent generals, presidents, tyrants, professors, bureaucrats, journalists and captains of industry, but will never tolerate incompetent "opera singers, conductors, ballerinas, courtesans, actors, film directors, cooks, tailors . . ." In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“In the meantime, she is the one today among us
most able to bear the idea of her own beauty,
and when we see it, what we do is natural:
we take our burned hands
out of our pockets,
and clap.”
“We lived hand in hand with the sand, the wind and the sun. When the wind blew strong, the sand from the sea whirled up and violently battered the Mud Whale. The grains would get inside the keep and stick to people's skin. When the sun shone, the mud walls, the drifts of sand, and the grains on people's skin all sparkled.”
Source: Children of the Whales, Vol. 1
“As her gaze traveled over the faces on the other side, she realized that it wasn’t only a person’s strengths but their flaws, that made them truly beautiful.”
Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
“However thin or fat you are is no indicator of the love you deserve or will receive.”
Source: Everything I Know About Love
“Let Art and Genius weep.”