“Like the girl, he seems to bend the light around him, and although he is nearly as attractive as the girl in his own way, it is his artistic fire that created a bubble around him rather than his beauty.”
Source: Scions
“Do you have to do that a lot?" "What?" I ask. "Deflect, so men don't start inflicting poetry on you.”
Source: Scions
“When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained.”
Source: Terminal Boredom: Stories
“Then came the first hint of fog, all silver and gold, and then more and more, turning grey and blue. Fog like that was beautiful, and it was dangerous, for you could get lost in it easily.”
Source: The First Tale of the Tinners' Rabbits
“Even today, we connect the color white with purity and the color black with evil. It would be considered odd if a person made a story called Snow Black and the Seven Dwarves. Well, snow is white, but she was named that because of her white skin, and she was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the land, so as you could see, white seems to be connected to beauty.”
Source: The Reformation
“„Härra Molotov, teie olete ilus mees, miks te oma välimuse eest sugugi ei hoolitse?“ Mõistate: mees ja ilus. Ütlesin talle: „Mul peeglit ei ole, ilu pole tõde ja tõde ei näe peeglist.”
Source: Tõde ja õigus II
“There is beauty to all things, a flower is beautiful even though it wilts, people are beautiful even though they commit such crimes, death is beautiful because first there must come life. But I think it’s hope that is most beautiful in its destruction. Because even lost to the smallest of embers, that ember can start a fire that will set the night ablaze,” he said to the stars.”
Source: When the Crows fly
“Our sense of beauty was shaped by evolution to embody awareness of what is difficult as opposed to easy, rare as opposed to common, costly as opposed to cheap, skillful as opposed to talentless, and fit as opposed to unfit.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Our sense of beauty was shaped by evolution to embody an awareness of what is difficult as opposed to easy, rare as opposed to common, costly as opposed to cheap, skillful as opposed to talentless, and fit as opposed to unfit.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Freya sensed her mother's damage in the fluid worlds she painted, where beauty and cruelty were hard to distinguish.”
Source: The Eye of the Beholder