Beauty Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“She saw herself alone, alive and doomed, strong and helpless, passing in a line of women, her mother before her, the child Lucy, behind,…

— Enid Bagnold

“He stared and talked at the girl's red hair and amused face for what seemed to be a few minutes; and then, feeling that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It seemed to him that there was a scarlet thread running through the fabric of life, one that joined events across the years, piercing…

— Douglas Wynne

“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things. Things like forbidden, ancient stories. It didn’t matter that the old stories killed…

— Kristen Ciccarelli

“Some days he wishes that he could simply empty the chambers of the men, fill the halls instead with women: the short sharp shock…

— Colum McCann

“I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the…

— Shan Sa

“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of our misfortune,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic. Curses bloomed. Girls…

— Sarah Cross

“In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Of all the women to wander into his lonely life, it had to be the cousin of the queen. That alone put her firmly…

— Vivienne Savage

“A man, a life - it was barely worth mentioning. The Visigoths had destroyed the Romans, and had themselves been destroyed by the Muslims.…

— Philipp Meyer