Florence

“I feel ugly” I said and you looked at me as if I spoke a different language. There are things you will never understand and if there were words to describe the rapture that takes place in my head from time to time I would put my hand in front of your eyes to protect you from all the ugliness in the world.
I kept my eyes on the streetlights outside the window and you kissed every inch of my body as if you could kiss the pain away.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Fortune's Fool

“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine