"For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30."

"While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that."

"There are so many beautiful, talented souls in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of your potential."

"I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it."

"He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess."

"I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem."

"I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that."

"I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart."

"That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that."

"Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky."

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair."

"Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness"

"Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions."

"Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else."

"She is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?"

"She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be."

"Dogs and angels are not very far apart"

"Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is."

"I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love."