But if you were matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?""You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You,

Maybe anything could become the most beautiful thing in the world if you gave in fully, let it take you over, let it be all you had.

No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!

Sometimes there’s no map when you go to new places, you have to make unexpected turns, but the beauty is these places are new.

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all.

How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!

Things can’t stay the same forever, Annemarie. People change; they grow up. That’s the way it’s supposed to happen.

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.

...knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.

All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly.