pretty

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
83d9c50	Better to be strong than pretty and useless.	women strength inspirational girls pretty	Lilith Saintcrow
5f8cba4	Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.	eyeliner tris pretty	Veronica Roth
8e0c010	Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.	pretty	Ishmael Beah
b419638	It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.	world my-name-is-asher-lev potok judaism pretty jewish jew	Chaim Potok
4a48cfe	She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.	great-expectations pretty eyes	Charles Dickens
21d6d85	"But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting."	sting pretty	L.M. Montgomery
ecd322f	She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.	grownups pretty	Neil Gaiman
6e85971	Like colors or a spring tree against that kind ofblue sky that pulls your heart out through your eyes. Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.	pretty pretty-things	Katherine Dunn
39a680d	She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.	gown ivory-hands miss-hale muslin tea-time teacups tea pretty pink	Elizabeth Gaskell
d35ae7c	Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?	looks pretty	Louisa May Alcott
6bba440	"Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough."	pretty rejection vanity	Jim Butcher
6d119bb	That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.	beauty brainwash think-on thought-provoking pretty thought ugly	Scott Westerfeld
5400eb8	They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.	words discarded mouths smoke smiles girls pretty conversations ugly	Markus Zusak
eb420cb	The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.	woman faith god life fountain lady-like her christian girl nice lady pretty speech eyes	Elizabeth George
1585446	A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.	beauty-queens real pretty	Markus Zusak
89f67a0	That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier...	nature beauty life prison pretty game	Hermann Hesse
d980f25	I wish he would look at me the way he looks at his subjects. Because then he'd see there's more to me than shy, just like I see there's more to him than slacker	somes up much pretty	Stephanie Perkins
bc7c3f5	Around 2 a.m. the snow started to fall. It was quite a lovely view and I breathed it in like I only do when I truly love something, and there was a small sadness creeping in through my chest because I knew I would have to leave it, go back to my basement with no stars in sight. But I pushed it aside because those moments are rare and I'm happy because now I know this place exists and that's all you need sometimes. You need to know that lovely places exist and you can go there, when things go wrong, and it's a place of solace.	minimalism solace safe places move simplicity home pretty	Charlotte Eriksson
abe99f7	A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.	man face body blind pretty eyes	Francine Rivers
265ad04	She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.	woman beautiful-body beautiful-face face pretty	Larry McMurtry
05b7021	It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.	words thank-you pretty	E.L. Konigsburg
232f3a7	She was still glad she looked like Scully. He wasn't pretty either, but pretty people weren't the kind you need. Pretty people saw themselves in the mirror and were either too happy or too sad. People like Billie just shrugged and didn't care. She didn't want to turn into anyone pretty. Anyway, she had scars now, you only had to look.	attitude vainity perspective pretty children	Tim Winton
047700a	His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he laughed, he was a different person.	romantic friendship love smiles pretty	Danielle Steel
7c6eb50	Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.	gloss photograph magazine photo shallow plastic superficial fake makeup fashion pretty ugly	Rebecca McNutt
9cddd91	They peered at him with their shining honey warm molasses-brown eyes. Their smiles, the white smiles pinned to their faces, were wide as all of summer.	pretty	Ray Bradbury
18fa1bd	She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.	happy pretty	Michael Dorris
7323d97	"Her mother's injunction on competing with other girls is a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down: "You just have to be smarter than the ones who are prettier and prettier than the ones who are smarter"	female-success smart mother pretty	Mary Karr

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

women strength inspirational girls pretty

Lilith Saintcrow

5f8cba4

Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

eyeliner tris pretty

Veronica Roth

8e0c010

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

pretty

Ishmael Beah

b419638

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

world my-name-is-asher-lev potok judaism pretty jewish jew

Chaim Potok

4a48cfe

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

great-expectations pretty eyes

Charles Dickens

21d6d85

"But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting."

sting pretty

L.M. Montgomery

ecd322f

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.

grownups pretty

Neil Gaiman

6e85971

Like colors or a spring tree against that kind ofblue sky that pulls your heart out through your eyes. Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

pretty pretty-things

Katherine Dunn

39a680d

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.

gown ivory-hands miss-hale muslin tea-time teacups tea pretty pink

Elizabeth Gaskell

d35ae7c

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

looks pretty

Louisa May Alcott

6bba440

"Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough."

pretty rejection vanity

Jim Butcher

6d119bb

That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.

beauty brainwash think-on thought-provoking pretty thought ugly

Scott Westerfeld

5400eb8

They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.

words discarded mouths smoke smiles girls pretty conversations ugly

Markus Zusak

eb420cb

The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

woman faith god life fountain lady-like her christian girl nice lady pretty speech eyes

Elizabeth George

1585446

A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.

beauty-queens real pretty

Markus Zusak

89f67a0

That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier...

nature beauty life prison pretty game

Hermann Hesse

d980f25

I wish he would look at me the way he looks at his subjects. Because then he'd see there's more to me than shy, just like I see there's more to him than slacker

somes up much pretty

Stephanie Perkins

bc7c3f5

Around 2 a.m. the snow started to fall. It was quite a lovely view and I breathed it in like I only do when I truly love something, and there was a small sadness creeping in through my chest because I knew I would have to leave it, go back to my basement with no stars in sight. But I pushed it aside because those moments are rare and I'm happy because now I know this place exists and that's all you need sometimes. You need to know that lovely places exist and you can go there, when things go wrong, and it's a place of solace.

minimalism solace safe places move simplicity home pretty

Charlotte Eriksson

abe99f7

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

man face body blind pretty eyes

Francine Rivers

265ad04

She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

woman beautiful-body beautiful-face face pretty

Larry McMurtry

05b7021

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

words thank-you pretty

E.L. Konigsburg

232f3a7

She was still glad she looked like Scully. He wasn't pretty either, but pretty people weren't the kind you need. Pretty people saw themselves in the mirror and were either too happy or too sad. People like Billie just shrugged and didn't care. She didn't want to turn into anyone pretty. Anyway, she had scars now, you only had to look.

attitude vainity perspective pretty children

Tim Winton

047700a

His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he laughed, he was a different person.

romantic friendship love smiles pretty

Danielle Steel

7c6eb50

Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.

gloss photograph magazine photo shallow plastic superficial fake makeup fashion pretty ugly

Rebecca McNutt

9cddd91

They peered at him with their shining honey warm molasses-brown eyes. Their smiles, the white smiles pinned to their faces, were wide as all of summer.

pretty

Ray Bradbury

18fa1bd

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

happy pretty

Michael Dorris

7323d97

"Her mother's injunction on competing with other girls is a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down: "You just have to be smarter than the ones who are prettier and prettier than the ones who are smarter"

female-success smart mother pretty

Mary Karr