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“Never walk alone at night, they tell you, if you're a girl. And it isn't fair. Because the night is when the world is quiet. The night is when the air is clear. The night is wild and welcoming.”

Book:Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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“That night, there was a girl at the dance. I gave her a rose. She was so happy. I didn't understand why she cared so much about a rose, a stupid rose that was missing petals. I understand now. Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like food. A beautiful thing like this rose -- I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost. That's how that girl was too.”

Loss Beauty Rose Swallow

Book:Beastly

Source: Beastly

“Beauty is not soft. It’s brutal. It’s the only thing that can stand in the same room with death and not flinch.””

Death Poetry Sex Beauty Horror

Book:The Clock is a Butcher

Source: The Clock is a Butcher

“I'm asking you to tell Lady Cassandra about my good qualities as well as the bad ones." "What good qualities?" West inquired sharply. Tom had to think for a moment. "How rich I am?”

Funny Romance Historical Romance Victorian Romance

Book:Chasing Cassandra

Source: Chasing Cassandra

“I'm fighting for beauty. A lot of people get confused by that because the only definition of beauty that they've inherited is so basic and flat that they just associate beauty with that commodity that we're told grants people power. That is not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is: Beauty is your soul's fingerprint on the earth, and no one else in the world can have your beauty. Beauty is when I'm speaking to someone and I'm like: I could talk to you for the rest of my life because I can finally breathe again. The world for me is a series of drowning and then having conversations with people where I can finally breathe again. And the reason I can breathe is because it's you, it's not that imprint of what you've been told - the cookie-cutter sheet that says: Hi, I only know myself from my identities. So beauty work for me is actually deep healing work to say: Who am I outside of what I've been told I should be? Beauty is about that attitude of showing up and saying: I'm worthy of being here. -Alok”

Beauty Identity

Book:We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions

Source: We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions

“Revel in the beauty of war. Fill yourselves with adrenaline and euphoria and be drunk from victory and forget that a gang of psychos want to pull the democracy you live in from beneath your feet.”

War Beauty Democracy Dictatorship Democracy Quotes Dictators

Author:Omer Toledano

“A permanent marker of the beauty and good he’d tried to bring into the world.”

World Beauty Good

Author:Sarah J. Maas

“An exile of wheat and olives”

Poetry Beauty Exile Wheat Olives

Book:Thoughts To Live

Source: Thoughts To Live

“I was alone, safe in the knowledge that my body had more or less ceased to exist in the face of this catastrophe. It was only much later [...] that I realised that no catastrophe, apart from maybe a final nuclear strike, would ever be big enough to free us from this curse. That even though we're in charge of this planet, we are its ugliest inhabitants, and that our longing for our own beauty will never cease, that we will never be content with the beauty in front of us. And yet I will never forget the feeling with which I ate that chocolate, [...] in that moment it was a sin without consequences. And I never gave up on the dream that one day my body wouldn't matter anymore.”

Freedom Beauty Body Image Ideal

Book:The Appointment

Source: The Appointment

“When reverence is forgotten, the soul grows restless. It begins to search for beauty in places where beauty cannot dwell, and for meaning in things that do not know how to give it. In the absence of the sacred, we do not cease to worship—we simply forget what is worthy of our worship.”

Nature Beauty Contemplative Thought Homanity

Author:Alma Camino

“Beauty is a way of mourning the dead.”

Death Beauty Lament The Dead

Author:Nadeem Aslam

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