"It’s like the hidden secret that no one tells you. We can all be beautiful girls. It’s like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along."

Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

"There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart."

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

"Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens—but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are."

Jenny Han, The Summer I turned Pretty

SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL 

"She’s not as beautiful as you…but she’s a simpler girl…"

Janet Fitch, White Oleander

"He’s like this incredibly beautiful Van Gogh painting with slashes all through it. True, it’s a Van Gogh, but look at those slashes."

Augusten Burroughs, Dry

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Beautiful. Lauren Ambrose

“Why does he love me so much? I know why I love him. I love him because he is like what love himself should be. But what does he see in me? I am not worthy of him. And yet—why, I cannot tell—though I feel so much beneath him, I don’t feel humble. I feel proud, terribly proud. Mother, did you love my father as I love Prince Charming?”

Sybil Vane, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"I’m always missing someone or someplace or something. I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere."

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

I can be young and cute when I want to be, and I can be really mature when I want to be. It’s kind of weird, like I’m this incredible changing girl…

Christina Ricci