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Quotes About Beauty

I don't know how to accomplish such a look. I find myself with a new fear: that I shall never, ever be this lovely.
~ Libba Bray
It's just a little initiation we have here at Spence - we like to torture each other. Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
~ Libba Bray
Are you saying we're not ravish-worthy?
~ Libba Bray
You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.
~ Libba Bray
Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
~ Libba Bray
It's knowing that I'll never have what she has—a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.
~ Libba Bray
Miss Temple, perhaps you will demonstrate the proper curtsy for us? Without ado, Cecily temple, She Who Can Do No Wrong, settles to the floor in a long, slow, graceful arc that seems to defy gravity. It is a thing of beauty. I am hideously jealous. Thank you, Miss Temple. Yes. Thank you, you little demon beast. May you marry a man who eats garlic with every meal.
~ Libba Bray
For a brief while, the women ask us questions: are we looking forward to our debuts? Did we enjoy this opera or that play? As we give our slight answers, they smile, and I cannot read what is behind their expressions. do they envy us our youth and beauty? Do they feel happiness and excitement for the lives that lie ahead of us? Or do they wish for another chance at their own lives? A different chance?
~ Libba Bray
With a low bow, she is gone in a haze of roses and hope
~ Libba Bray
Sinjin was sitting bare-chested with Petra's blue feather boa wrapped around his neck and draped over his shoulder. His long dark curls had been teased and sprayed into a sexy mane. Heavy black eyeliner rimmed his eyes. "Am I not gorgeous? I want to snog myself. I'm like a postmodern Lord Byron." "You put the ironic in Byronic," Petra quipped. "Well said, luv.
~ Libba Bray
Sometimes, when the wind blows through them leaves, it sounds like your name. It's like a sigh, then, she says. The most beautiful sound I ever heard. A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.
~ Libba Bray
My head kinda hurts," Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes. "What is it?" Miss New Mexico checked to make sure her bra straps weren't showing. "N-nothing." Miss Ohio managed an awkward smile.
~ Libba Bray
Ling's smile was big and goofy. Henry whistled. That smile of yours is a real beauty. Ling shook her head, letting her hair cover her face. It's stupid. Right. What I meant to say is, that stupid smile of yours is a real beauty. This time, Ling actually giggled. The creature laughs! Henry said. I'm not such a killjoy! Actually, you are. A bit. Hey!
~ Libba Bray
Holy f---! she managed before going under again, as if the water sensed that young ladies of such beauty and promise should never curse.
~ Libba Bray
My head kinda hurts," Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes.
~ Libba Bray
The light is so bright it hurts my eyes. But I don't dare close them. I won't. Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning, and there is so much to see.
~ Libba Bray
In the firelight, Mother's elegant handwriting dances on the page.
~ Libba Bray
Modelo? ¿Actriz? ¿Princesa? Es demasiado hermosa para ser alguien corriente.
~ Libba Bray
No se puede culpar a un chico por besar a la muchacha más hermosa de Nueva York.
~ Libba Bray
When a cat, who is a picture of grace and beauty, suddenly rolls over in a hideous posture, contorts his face and scratches his ear, he is telling you, sir, to go to blazes!
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
We designed the house to go with her looks.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Billions are spent for neurophysiological research to control human behavior, he reflected. Beauty shops would be cheaper.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.
~ Lilly Pulitzer