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Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
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women
strength
inspirational
girls
pretty
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Lilith Saintcrow |
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Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
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eyeliner
tris
pretty
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Veronica Roth |
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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
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pretty
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Ishmael Beah |
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It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
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world
my-name-is-asher-lev
potok
judaism
pretty
jewish
jew
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Chaim Potok |
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She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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great-expectations
pretty
eyes
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Charles Dickens |
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"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."
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sting
pretty
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L.M. Montgomery |
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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.
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grownups
pretty
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Neil Gaiman |
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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.
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pretty
pretty-things
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Katherine Dunn |
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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.
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gown
ivory-hands
miss-hale
muslin
tea-time
teacups
tea
pretty
pink
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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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?
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looks
pretty
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Louisa May Alcott |
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"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."
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pretty
rejection
vanity
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Jim Butcher |
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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.
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beauty
brainwash
think-on
thought-provoking
pretty
thought
ugly
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Scott Westerfeld |
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The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.
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woman
faith
god
life
fountain
lady-like
her
christian
girl
nice
lady
pretty
speech
eyes
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Elizabeth George |
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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.
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words
discarded
mouths
smoke
smiles
girls
pretty
conversations
ugly
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Markus Zusak |
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A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.
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beauty-queens
real
pretty
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Markus Zusak |
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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...
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nature
beauty
life
prison
pretty
game
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Hermann Hesse |
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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
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somes
up
much
pretty
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Stephanie Perkins |
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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.
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minimalism
solace
safe
places
move
simplicity
home
pretty
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Charlotte Eriksson |
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She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.
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woman
beautiful-body
beautiful-face
face
pretty
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Larry McMurtry |
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A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
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man
face
body
blind
pretty
eyes
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Francine Rivers |
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It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
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words
thank-you
pretty
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E.L. Konigsburg |
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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.
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romantic
friendship
love
smiles
pretty
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Danielle Steel |
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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.
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attitude
vainity
perspective
pretty
children
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Tim Winton |
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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.
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happy
pretty
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Michael Dorris |
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"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"
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female-success
smart
mother
pretty
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Mary Karr |
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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.
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pretty
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Ray Bradbury |
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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.
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gloss
photograph
magazine
photo
shallow
plastic
superficial
fake
makeup
fashion
pretty
ugly
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