i dont want to look “pretty” i want to look otherworldly and vaguely threatening
Tag: beautiful
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens (via themanatthecenter)

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. It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.
Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

Warsan Shire
Girls aren’t beautiful, they’re pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.
Henry Rollins, Smile, You’re Traveling: Black Coffee Blues Part 3 (via ancient-serpent)
