“You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ugly through me I promise all I will echo back is Beauty, beauty. You have always been beauty.”
— Andrea Gibson
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“You will learn as you get older…that no [person] is perfect. Grown-ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets. Some have quirkier quirks and deeper secrets than others, but all of them, including one’s own parents, have two or three private habits hidden up their sleeves that would probably make you gasp if you knew about them.”
— Roald Dahl
“Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn’t meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was a beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.”
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
“Night-born beauty. How sweetly she melts in her sin.”
—
František Halas, tr. by Stephan Delbos, from “Malá Strana Night Vision,”
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“Ghetto is nothing but creativity that hasn’t been stolen yet.”
- Writer, Nezarial Scott, on the hypocritical commercialization and commodification of Black American fashion, vernacular, slang, culture, and livelihood.
“You know there’s no such thing as a complete lie. There’s always some truth in there.”
— John Green and David Levithan