She made broken look beautiful
and strong look invincible.
She walked with the Universe
on her shoulders and made it
look like a pair of wings.
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She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible.
ARIANA DANCU She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch.
NIKKI ROWE What did she say?'
'She made her displeasure with his existence clear.'
'That's it?'
...
MICHELLE SAGARA WEST Lowering my gaze , I walked to my seat, settling in next to Kriss.
"Seriously America?" she whi...
KIERA CASS Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each oth...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul...
W.B. YEATS I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
Fo...
ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON STAINS
With red clay between my toes,
and the sun setting over my head,
the ghost of ...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery.
“What is it?” she ...
DEREK LANDY Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're ...
SIMONE ELKELES She grew tired of shielding her body,
For societal expectation and propriety,
Double stand...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.
oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When you look at her,
if you do not feel
blessed to have her.
She is not yours to kee...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY Invisible
She scanned through the magazine
for girls who looked like her
with d...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her ...
RUPI KAUR When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Sto...
ROMAN PAYNE I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into...
MELISSA MARR She walks,
on the streets,
with a face that,
doesn't belong.
It smiles more than...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Hang tight
Hold on
Look up
Stay strong
Hang on
Hold tight
Look strong<...
TAHEREH MAFI Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all ps...
CRAIG FERGUSON Overheard vampire conversation.
"Is that Ophelia?"
"yep"
"She doesn't look well"
NEIL LECKMAN When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,
She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a ...
WILLIAM PLOMER In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she walt...
SARAH J. MAAS How do I look?” she asked.
“Absolutely stunning.
STYLO FANTOME She was beauty and intelligence stitched together with no seams
She lived in a world with no d...
HUBERT MARTIN And there was a beautiful view
But nobody could see.
Cause everybody on the island
Was s...
LAURIE ANDERSON Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Hav...
W.B. YEATS Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)
I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
PATTI SMITH she is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sittin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.
...
WARSAN SHIRE Dad?" Jesus asked.
"Yes, son?" God replied.
"Do we look like man or does he look like us?"...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS She asks me silly questions.
Like how much do I love her?
I smile and look at the sky for...
AVIJEET DAS I don’t want any money.”
I put the wallet away.
She said: “What are you going to do ...
JONATHAN LATIMER She dried her tears, and they did smile
To see her cheeks’ returning glow;
Nor did disce...
EMILY BRONTë Morfyd’s care.
As she walked out of the cave she passed Annwyl walking in. The girl had her s...
G.A. AIKEN Little boxes on the hillside...
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look ju...
MALVINA REYNOLDS I walked a mile with Pleasure.
She chattered all the way,
But left me none the wiser
For al...
ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON Celaena threw her weight into the dagger she held aloft, and gained an inch. His arms strained. She ...
SARAH J. MAAS For the Wife Beater's Wife
With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
Circling to ...
BRUCE WEIGL What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.
'What do you do?'
'What do you do?' she a...
BRET EASTON ELLIS The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment ...
MILAN KUNDERA Coraline's father stopped working and made them all dinner.
Coraline was disgusted. "Dadd...
NEIL GAIMAN She wasn’t broken.
She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks.
She was always tryi...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly?
do the cells in the body stop detonating t...
ANDREA GIBSON You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"
I am one. Death is my enemy."
J.R. WARD Did she help people?" Miss Level added.
...
...
"She made them help one another, she ...
TERRY PRATCHETT What's this one, Mum? There's no return address, and there's like, five stamps on it. Who's it from?...
KELLY BATTEN You look great," he said.
It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house...
KRISTIN HANNAH Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go."
"That's okay,...
RAINBOW ROWELL She's Devine.
She's Magic.
And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order fo...
C.R. BITTAR Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally.
I don't budge.
She nudges me with her elbow. "You want ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK And there was a beautiful view,
But nobody could see.
'Cause everyone in the Island was sa...
LAURIE ANDERSON What is that?” Addison inspects the food with a look of sheer revulsion on her face. You’d swear...
SIOBHAN DAVIS He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sou...
BRANDON SANDERSON I pity the woman who will love you
when I am done. She will show up
to your first date wit...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?"
"Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "...
VERONICA ROTH Girl Without Hands
Walking through the ruins
on your way to work
that do not lo...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Top Ten Reasons Why Virgin Val Sucks
10. She called me a one-hit-wonder.
9. She doesn�...
KELLY ORAM Astonishing. In the morning, when she sat working at that table of correspondence, silhouetted by su...
TESSA DARE She didn‟t look like the athletic type to me.”
“Maybe Nemov carried her. He looked...
JOSH LANYON She burns like the sun
Beautiful when she comes undone
No restraints
Pure passion flo...
MELODY LEE he turns to the sunlight,
And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
ASHISH BHARDWAJ Someday you shall meet someone
Who's gonna look at you in awe-
Flying high, wings all spre...
SANHITA BARUAH It’s not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" DAVE MATTHES Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON They took one look at me,
And hated my black face.
They took one look at me,
And deci...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN She cries,
I laugh,
She becomes numb,
I become filled with joy,
She slowly crumb...
TANZY SAYADI How did I love her?
Let me count the ways.
The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a s...
LAUREN OLIVER I know,” he said, looking down at himself — skin like papier-mache, ribs like violin strings. �...
CASSANDRA CLARE For a moment she studied the sketch. It had been done in pencil and the artist was very skilled. The...
ELIZABETH HOYT She walked around the edge of the table to position her next shot. As she pulled her cue back she wa...
ERIN NICHOLAS Survive
...
Some women survive
by creating walls,
big walls guarding their heart...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot...
ERICA BAUERMEISTER The life spills over, some days.
She cannot be at rest,
Wishes she could explode
ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
EMILY BRONTë It was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant
a face as easily hurt
...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe.
silence
and stars
A...
BETH REVIS When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
H...
HENRY ROLLINS ...it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the ab...
SARAH J. MAAS Her phone beeps and she pulls it out again. She frowns.
I give her a side-eye. “Everyth...
ASHLEY POSTON Cole didn’t see her for the rest of the weekend, and he was glad.
She wasn’t in class on Mo...
DANIKA STONE Clay, did you ever love me?"
I'm studying a billboard and say that I didn't hear what she said....
BRET EASTON ELLIS Lorcan reached out, grasping her chin and forcing her to look at him. Hopeless, bleak eyes met his. ...
SARAH J. MAAS Look. Isn't he beautiful?"
Drew's expression softened. "Ah, Nellie. He's bald, pink, and has no...
DEEANNE GIST MOM
Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devot...
GIORGE LEEDY You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay ...
LAINI TAYLOR She was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms.
“I never thought to look in her...
J.K. ROWLING Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place;
And when in his fair parts she did abide,
Sh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She shook her head. "Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with...
SARAH DESSEN We will speak for the books."
...
"Like the Lorax?"
"The Lorax speaks for the trees,"...
PAUL ACAMPORA You didn't sleep?"
"No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like...
JOHN GREEN Her tone changed from shocked to curious. “How was it? Was it… different?”
Sarah bit her ...
BONNIE DEE She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless...
NIKKI ROWE Now piercèd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous g...
JOHN WILMOT Sweet Grace amazes me
The way that she can see
Beyond the man I am
To the man that I ...
JASON GRAY Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .
And it is as t...
AL-MUTANABBī I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's no...
RAE EARL
More Ariana Dancu
She had a wild, wandering soul
but when she loved, she loved with chaos and that made all the ...
ARIANA DANCU She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible.
ARIANA DANCU I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and wai...
ARIANA GRANDE My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do...
ARIANA GRANDE People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school th...
ARIANA GRANDE I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.
ARIANA GRANDE I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken u...
ARIANA GRANDE To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the ...
ARIANA GRANDE The best fashion advice I'd say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes yo...
ARIANA GRANDE Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're t...
ARIANA GRANDE Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels... try it!
ARIANA GRANDE Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special...
ARIANA GRANDE I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that h...
ARIANA GRANDE If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because th...
ARIANA GRANDE All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, t...
ARIANA GRANDE I've done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is...
ARIANA GRANDE I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Maria...
ARIANA GRANDE Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the mos...
ARIANA GRANDE Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as ...
ARIANA GRANDE Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. ...
ARIANA GRANDE I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hosp...
ARIANA GRANDE I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.
ARIANA GRANDE My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like...
ARIANA GRANDE I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lov...
ARIANA GRANDE Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when ...
ARIANA GRANDE I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. ...
ARIANA GRANDE Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.
ARIANA GRANDE I remember liking Betty White a lot. It was one of those things as a little child actress, you get i...
ARIANA RICHARDS I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent l...
ARIANA REINES It's the idea that what you're buying reflects who you are, what your values are. It's not overtly p...
ARIANA SPEYER People have been seeking out spirituality forever. And I think we live in a very consumerist and mar...
ARIANA SPEYER I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.
ARIANA GRANDE Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and record...
ARIANA GRANDE But there is a deeper part of it, a yearning for some kind of centeredness, a feeling of mindfulness...
ARIANA SPEYER I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.
ARIANA GRANDE A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed w...
ARIANA FRANKLIN Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emot...
ARIANA GODOY I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jean...
ARIANA GRANDE I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to con...
ARIANA GRANDE I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my...
ARIANA GRANDE I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come bac...
ARIANA GRANDE We need to encourage each other to do what we want and not let it totally define us. You know? The t...
ARIANA GRANDE In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday’s affliction and the hope of tomorrow’s g...
ARIANA CARRUTH