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“He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.”

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Book:The Penalty

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The Penalty

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Mal Peet

Mal Peet was a British author renowned for his young adult literature. His works often explore complex interpersonal relationships and profound social issues, earning him a dedicated following. more

“In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.”

Beauty

Book:The Discovery of Heaven

Source: The Discovery of Heaven

“In a sense,’ Foucault concluded with a flourish, ‘all the rest of my life I’ve been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.”

Beauty Homosexuality

Book:Passion of Michel Foucault

Source: Passion of Michel Foucault

“How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes--and the worst kissing lips in the universe.”

Humor Beauty Comparison

Book:Provoked Wife

Source: Provoked Wife

“She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me. Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.”

Love Beauty Love Song

Author:Hartley Coleridge

“I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.”

Beauty

Book:Half Brother

Source: Half Brother

“نحن نقدّر أنفسنا ونرى أننا نستحق أن نُحَبْ. تلك هى الفكرة التى تؤرقنا منذ كنا فى المهد. عندما نكبر نخشى أن تكون فكرتنا عن أنفسنا خاطئة، ربما نحن غير جديرين بالحب، ربما نحن أقبح أو أسمج أو أغبى أو أضعف من أن نروق للآخرين، و هكذا يكون اللقاء الأول مرعبًا قدر ما هو ممتع. الاختبار الأول لك فى عينىّ من؟ فى عينىّ الإنسان الوحيد الذى يهمك فى الكون كله. ليت صوتى أجمل.. ليت أنفي أصغر.. ليت قامتي أطول.. ليتني.. ليتني شخص آخر!”

Love

Author:أحمد خالد توفيق

“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.”

Humor Beauty Fantasy Feet Humour Young Adult Bones Body Image Promises Skeletons Dieting Portents Skinniness

Book:Strange Places

Source: Strange Places

“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face?”

Source: The Beauty Myth

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