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Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0) QUOTES

Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0) QUOTES

1 " When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

2 " Does he give you zings in your things? "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

3 " Fire burns blue and hot.
Its fair light blinds me not.
Smell of smoke is satisfying, tastes nourishing to my tongue.
I think fire ageless, never old, and yet no longer young.
Morning coals are cool: daylight leaves me blind.
I love the fire most because of what it leaves behind. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

4 " May you live every day of your life.” ― Jonathan Swift "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

5 " No. Since I first saw you. Since I first laid eyes on you and felt sorry for every beautiful thing that was made no longer resplendent—nullified by your being. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

6 " This came from Sandra. "Roses are red, violets are blue, rhyming is hard. Wine. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

7 " With enough use, practice, and honing of skill, words were the weapons of choice used by exceptional writers and poets. Minds can be changed, hearts can be lost and broken, souls can be surrendered given the right words. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

8 " My type has a romantic soul. He’ll make my brain and my heart fight over who gets him first. He does what’s right, even when it’s not easy—actually, especially when it’s not easy. He knows the value of discipline, education, honor, and restraint. And his strength of character is the only thing that outweighs the strength of his love for me. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

9 " We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

10 " I would not always be joy, nor would I want inert contentment. Sorrow and struggle bring gravity to the soul and to the mind, a gravity that cannot be achieved through mere happiness. We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

11 " Take romance for instance. Fictional women in romance novels never get their period. They never have morning breath. They orgasm seventeen times a day. And they never seem to have jobs with bosses. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

12 " There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it’s not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion—everything is distant and removed. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

13 " Everyone knows that in real life, fictionally handsome men are vacuous vessels of Satan. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

14 " If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” — Robert Frost "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

15 " How does the ocean say hello to the shore… it gives it a little wave. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

16 " Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.” — W. Somerset Maugham "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

17 " Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?” “That is the only time a man can be brave,” his father told him. ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

18 " If sorrow as a force is gravity, and mere happiness is inertia, then love and being in love is momentum. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

19 " If I told you I love you now
How many seconds would it take
How long would you allow
All that I am to break
I turn away
Before you can see
How badly I need you to stay
With me "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)

20 " We’re taking it a hundred miles north.
That’s a hundred miles closer to where you are.
I’ve decided units and measurements of distance are bullshit.
With you there are only two distances that matter:
Here.
Not here.
You are not here. "

― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)