Quote #2451 from Beauteous Being Arthur Rimbaud
Wed, 2010-01-20 20:22 — GabrielleOh, our bones are clothed with an amorous new body.
Quote #2390 from The First Winter Snow by Richard Brautigan
Fri, 2009-10-16 12:39 — GabrielleOh, pretty girl, you have trapped
yourself in the wrong body. Twenty
extra pounds hang like a lumpy
tapestry on your perfect mammal nature.Three months ago you were like a
deer staring at the first winter snow.Now Aphrodite thumbs her nose at you
and tells stories behind your back
Quote #2339 from The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Sat, 2009-08-08 06:19 — Gabrielle"I suppose I was young when I first saw them," King Haggard said. "Now I must be old- at least I have picked many more things up than I had then, and put them all down again. But I always knew that nothing was worth the investment of my heart, because nothing lasts, and I was right, and so I was always old. Yet each time I see my unicorns, it is like that morning in the woods, and I am truly young in spite of myself, and anything can happen in a world that holds such beauty."
Quote #2265 from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Thu, 2009-06-11 17:00 — GabrielleThe world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Quote #2209 from N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto
Wed, 2009-04-22 23:14 — GabrielleI saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
Quote #2174 from Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau
Thu, 2009-03-19 14:31 — Gabrielle'For that couple of minutes she symbolized everything that is wrong with how we perceive beauty as a society, she was the store bought ideal that drives girls to bulimia and anorexia. She was the skinny thinspiration that helps thirteen year olds put off eating for just one more day, and so I walked over and punched her.'
Quote #2132 from The High Window by Raymond Chandler
Thu, 2009-03-19 14:31 — GabrielleFrom thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.
Quote #2119 from The Beautiful And The Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thu, 2009-03-19 14:30 — GabrielleHis eyes were focused upon a spot of brilliant color on the roof of a house farther down the alley.It was a girl in a red negligé, silk surely, drying her hair by the still hot sun of late afternoon. His whistle died upon the stiff air of the room; he walked cautiously another step nearer the window with a sudden impression that she was beautiful. ...He watched her for several minutes. Something was stirred in him, something not accounted for by the warm smell of the afternoon or the triumphant vividness of red. He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful--then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards. The autumn air was between them, and the roofs and blurred voices. Yet for a not altogether explained second, posing perversely in time, his emotion had been nearer to adoration than in the deepest kiss he had ever known.
Quote #2106 from Henry and June by Anaïs Nin
Thu, 2009-03-19 14:30 — GabrielleI might be down in the dumps a hundred times, but each time I would clamber out again to good coffee on a lacquered tray beside an open fire. Each time I would clamber out to silk stockings and perfume. Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Quote #2023 from Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Thu, 2009-03-19 14:30 — GabrielleThere are some beloved women whose eyes, by a chance blend of brilliancy and shape, affect us not directly, not at the moment of shy perception, but in a delayed and cumulative burst of light when the heartless person is absent, and the magic agony abides, and its lenses and lamps are installed in the dark.
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