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“I was hostile, and I had every right to be. Middle school didn't make any sense. If you were mean, people liked you. If you were nice, people were mean. If you teased girls, they smiled and laughed. If you complimented them, they frowned and walked away. If you were bad in class, you were hailed in the hallway. If you were good in class, you were bullied in the locker room. The pretty girls dated the ugly boys, and the only friends you had were the ones you didn't want.”
― Yousef Alqamoussi, Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging

“Besides, finding out something like that would have killed my mother."
And then Jessie had known she was going to explode if she didn't get out of there. So she had gotten up, springing out of her chair so fast she had almost knocked the ugly, bulky thing over. She had sprinted from the room, knowing they were all looking at her, not caring. What they thought didn't matter. What mattered was that the sun had gone out, the very sun itself, and if she told, her story would be disbelieved only if God was good. If God was in a bad mood, Jessie would be believed... and even if it didn't kill her mother, it would blow the family apart like a stick of dynamite in a rotten pumpkin.”
― Stephen King, Gerald's Game

“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.'

... So I chattered on; and Heathcliff gradually lost his frown, and began to look quite pleasant...”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“That was life. The good, the bad, the ugly all mixed together in a special kind of recipe of possibility.”
― Lucy Score, Gin Fling

“She had known from a young age that everyone had darkness inside—some just controlled it better than others. Very few people believed that they were bad, and this was the scariest part. Human nature could be so hideous, but it persisted in this ugliness by insisting it was good.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“Nothing is truly black or white, beautiful or ugly, and bad or good. Perception is truly key.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“How much of the ugly does it take to substitute for a lack of the beautiful? How many adventure films does it take to compensate for a lack of adventure? How many superhero movies must one watch, to compensate for the atrophied expression of one’s greatness? How much pornography to meet the need for intimacy? How much entertainment to substitute for missing play? It takes an infinite amount. That’s good news for economic growth, but bad news for the planet.”
― Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“It means seeing myself clearly-good, bad, beautiful, ugly, faults, mistakes-acknowledging what I really think and feel, and not judging those emotions. Understanding myself. Not censoring it. Having compassion for myself.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“You really are one heck of a pretty woman,’ [he] says.

…’Pretty is not a good reason to court someone, you know…’

‘This from the woman who doesn’t read the books with the ugly covers.’

‘Well, I’m just warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.’

…’Nah, I’ve seen you on the shelf for years. I’ve read the synopsis and the quotes on the back. … it’s enough to make me want to read on….”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Live large. Dare to take up space. Be relentless in the pursuit of what truly lights you up. Take risks and stay open. Love yourself enough to know when to walk away. Love yourself enough to believe with every fiber of your being that there is something better for you out there, that there is someone who will accept every part of you no matter how bad or good or ugly or beautiful. They will see your inherent value shining right out of you and they will treasure you, they will uplift you, they will protect you, they will love you well.

You are worth that. Don’t forget it.”
― Kirsten Robinson

“The good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly, the pleasure, the pain. I want that.”
― Colleen Hoover

“All know the Bible story of David’s victory over Goliath, 12 yet the Bible also tells the story of David’s adultery with Bathsheba 13 and of his failure with his son Absalom. 14 If only David and his failures were mentioned, that would not be the complete story; on the other hand, if only David and his victories were listed, neither would that be the complete story. It takes all sides of a story to see the full, accurate picture. So the Bible (and early writers in black history) illustrate the principle that the good, the bad, and the ugly must be presented in order to transmit the full story not only of history in general but of African American political history in particular – which is the policy that will be pursued in this work. In this chronological journey through many momentous events in black political history, both the people and the issues involved in those early events”
― David Barton, Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White

“The normal quiet hum of the street is gone. Instead the air is tense and thick with something foreign. It’s weird. Usually the undesirables, the ugliness of the neighborhood, hide while the kids come out to play. The second we’re at school, the busyness, the good and the bad, starts back up again.”
― Louisa Onomé, Like Home

“You wanna know if I'm religious? I sure haven't made a dent in the pew, but boy do I thank God. For ever morning I get to wake up and my coffee's hot and your mom's right there next to me at the breakfast table. I thank God I get to work this ranch for a living instead of having to put on a necktie and commute to some office. I get to smell sage and pinon instead of traffic exhaust. Somebody or something made a beautiful place in this ugly world, and saw fit to put me right in the middle of it. Now, whether there's some old fella with a beard floating on a cloud up there or just some...cosmic energy or whatnot, I got no idea. But whatever God is, wherever He lives, I thank Him because, I tell you what, I can look back on every minute of it, good and bad, and I can tell you that I've had one hell of a life. Pardon my French" -Walter”
― Meagan Brothers, Weird Girl and What's His Name

“She has seen the good, the bad and the ugly, and yet her dreams still seem far from being realised.”
― Hussain S. Zaidi, Mafia Queens of Mumbai

“I had come to understand that sugar, while fun, is nutritionally expensive. Why would I want to waste my allotment of it on vending machine cookies or breakfast cereal? Why not save it for that something truly special? Americans instead simply decide to have it all—the good, the bad, the ugly—and then are tragically surprised when health ramifications ensue. No one ever told them sugar could be really, truly harmful.”
― Eve O Schaub, 無糖生活的一年

“In time, in time they tell me, I’ll not feel so bad. I don’t want time to heal me. There’s a reason I’m like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won’t smooth you away. I can’t say good-bye.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

“On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special.”
― Sheeja Jose, Goodbye Girl

“Perhaps this will put off a lot of people, but I am afraid love is not really the experience of beauty and romantic joy alone. Love is associated with ugliness and pain and aggression, as well as with the beauty of the world; it is not the recreation of heaven. Love or compassion, the open path, is associated with “what is.” In order to develop love—universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it—one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad.”
― Shambhala Publications, Radical Compassion: Shambhala Publications Authors on the Path of Boundless Love