Beaut Sentences

“Minus the bullshit, life's great”

“Things that make our lives richer often make them harder.”

"Let’s connect, because it’s worth the effort. Let’s gather people around our tables, not because it’s effortless, but because it’s worth the effort. Let’s practice analog connection in big and small ways because it’s worth the effort—because all the best things are."

"Contemplate the price you pay for inaction."

"If you respect beauty, you've nourished your soul."

"I still remember seeing the Spice Girls play at Wembley as a tween, circa 1998. They were at the peak of their powers, and yet there was no talk of kidneys being sold in order to afford the entry price."

"The simile is a rhetorical magic trick, like a pun pulled out of a hat. A metaphor, however, feels not clever but true. Take away the announcement of like, and we read and write on a much less sophisticated level, on a level that has been called primitive, because it recalls the staggering ancient power of words as curses, as spells to transform someone into a frog, a stag, a satanic serpent."

“I been drownin' out the bad thoughts in my mind

"And now my biggest fear is not the dying

“I am rooted but I flow.”

Agnes: "I can't really imagine myself old."

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”