Children Quote by L.J. Shen

“That girl was the real me. Frightened. Worthless. A terrible friend. Terrible daughter. Well educated but so limited in ideas worth having. Beautiful yet…

— Fisher Amelie

“You were so beautiful when you wanted to die. When you wanted to live, you became so ugly.”

— Yukio Mishima

“Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty…A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness…

— Toni Morrison

“I wanted to know how ugly I could get, how ruined and ugly and spoiled, before they stopped trying to fuck me. I didn't…

— Emma Forrest

“She brought me back from the dead. I never realized how ugly my insides were until she showed me what beauty really was.”

— Christine Zolendz

“She could not understand why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em.”

— Cassandra Rose Clarke

“Life is beautiful, but it is also so damn ugly.”

— Mommy Moo Moo

“God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful…

— G.S. Jennsen

“For every peaceful man, there was a man who wanted to hurt her, even kill her, because she was a gorgeous thing he could…

— Kristin Cashore

“She was so beautiful. But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties.”

— Marie Lu