Young & Beautiful Quotes

“And, nope, Louis never ever thought he’d be the type to drunkenly screech his love to the sleeping world but here he is and here they are and when Harry’s face bursts into life and color like a newborn star, Louis knows that he never wants to stop being this person.

“I LOVE YOU!” he screams again, just to watch the jade of Harry’s eyes dance, and he’s breathless and elated and everything feels endless.

“What are you doing?” Harry giggles, glancing brightly between Louis and the sky as he tumbles over, grabbing for Louis’ hands, his shirt, his face.

“I’m filling up the sky with my love for you,” Louis says simply, catching his breath with a shrug. “So whenever you look up, it echoes back.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when thought.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“I should like to be the sun. And you can be the moon.’
[...]
‘But then we’d never see each other.’
[...]
‘Not so, young one. The moon shines because of the sun, you know. Because the sun's always there. Just like me.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Books are food for the brain. I can't think of anything healthier”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Harry’s smile twitches at the corner. “I like that one,” he drawls in protest. “I chose him specifically.”

Louis looks up. “Him?”

“Aloysius.”

“Aloysius,” Louis repeats in a deadpan. “You named a shriveled strawberry Aloysius.”

Harry shines proudly, looking up to meet Louis’ gaze. “Yeah,” he nods with bright eyes and a half-smile.

“Right then. Just checking,” Louis says, and offers his palm.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“And up close, in person, those eyes are even more terrifying. Where there should be emotion, soul, and intimacy, there instead lies a wall, cold and dark, barricading the boy from the rest of the world. And Louis can’t look away.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Good. Keep your secrets. You're too young and beautiful not to have secrets.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“He’s leaving, and he picks up his shoulder bag on the way out and he’s staring at the ceiling, then the sky, and he closes the door silently behind him, and he stares upward because the minute he looks down, the tears will fall.

And he won’t cry over Harry Styles.

So Louis doesn’t look down.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“He watches Harry making intricate patterns, using the last of the glitter. “Are you making it so we can never be found?” Louis laughs, and the bucket dangles from his slack fingers.

Harry’s smile falters immediately as he sprinkles the last of his handful.

“Something like that.” He brushes his hands off on his trousers, and just like that, he’s back to his stoic poetry. “You can be found, if you like. But I don’t want to be.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“And so this has become Louis' life.
Feeling just as much pain as he does pleasure. Excelling academically and maintaining an excellent group of friends and being in love with the one person in the world who is incapable of falling in love.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“I can’t grow attached to shadows. They’re gone as quickly as they come”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“I will always give you everything," Louis says, lightheaded, soaring, full.
Is he high? Is this normal? Does emotion do this to people? He must be high.
He's so fucking happy.
"I'll always give you everything," Harry mimics, sincerely, and they just stare, lost in each other, before Harry breaks out in a wide grin, glancing down at Louis' lips shyly. "If you want," he adds quietly.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Louis can't catch his breath.
Neither can Harry.
Why isn't there more air?
Harry must have taken it with him.
"Not with you," Harry says one last time before he practically flings himself out the door, slamming it behind him, and leaving Louis alone, framed in the window, suffocating.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“It's like watching a bird that's been caged its whole existence and is suddenly released, overwhelmed with freedom and life, filling its lungs with what it never dared breathe and filling its eyes with what it never dared see.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“The moon knows," is what he says, breath colored in liquor and a smile.
[…]
"The moon knows that we're in love."
[…]
"I'm filling the sky with my love for you," […] "So whenever you look up, it echoes back."
"No matter where I am?" […]
"No matter where you are," Louis affirms. "There's only one sky."
"We all share the same sky," […] "But I should Always like to hear you say it," […] "Not an echo. I want you beside me under every sky. Always.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Just because someone like you exists… You made me fall in love with the world again."
[…]
"You gave me a world I didn't know was there,"
[…]
"I'll always give you everything,”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Harry’s asleep within a few short minutes, body now warm and pliable, and as Louis holds him, he doesn’t dare fall asleep because he doesn’t trust himself to dream.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Harry’s somewhere beyond the realm of existence, in the dark corners that get forgotten or shunned, and he’s far away from everybody, so far away, but Louis imagines himself reaching out, imagines stretching his hand into the bleak darkness, and imagines his fingers brushing against the bits of Harry that are still there. And that’s all he needs.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“but he can’t seem to look away as he stands among chrysanthemums and daisies on a cobblestone path, the tragic musk of roses settled in the air, staring up at dimly lit windows, searching for a boy who barely exists.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Harry swallows, still staring, still caught. Almost dazed.

"That doesn't make sense, either."

Louis dares to smile wider. "Good. I should hate to make sense."

"To be great is to be misunderstood." Harry quotes mindlessly, unblinkingly, lost.

Louis' ribs are cracking. He grins.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“The moon knows that we're in love”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“He wants to take it back instantly. But he doesn’t. He just sits there, staring at this tornado of a boy with deep shadows and dark curls and holds his fucking hand like a child, unable to pry himself away”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Louis hates everybody. So he texts Niall.

‘I hate this school and everybody in it. Death to rich people.’

A second later, his screen lights up.

‘Can’t die. Am immortal. Want to bunk off and get high under a tree?’

And Louis really wants to say no.

'Which tree?'

But he says that instead.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“I love being serious. Serious is important. I abhor humour and fun. Especially happiness.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“And, pray tell Curly, just how is my ass supposed to fit on this seat?"

"The same way it manages to fit into this room-suspend your disbelief, Louis Tomlinson.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“They kiss like they've kissed for-fucking-ever and they align like a key in a lick and Louis is so fucking happy.
He thinks he hears the world sigh.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Beams of moonlight catch on his face, illuminating his pallid skin, crimson lips, and the soft petals of the blossoms tucked in his hair”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“They kiss like they've kissed for-fucking-ever and they align like a key in a lock and Louis is so fucking happy.
He thinks he hears the world sigh.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“He understands people and he's honest and brilliant and good and he just - just knows. He knows everything." […] "He's not like everybody else -everybody else is boring, they're empty," […]. "He's different. Good. And he's your son. You should be bloody proud of him. You should-" […] "The fact that you could say that to your own family… To your son. To Louis. When...when you should be honored. When you should be thankful." […] "So don't you dare tell him that he has nothing." […] "Not when he's everything.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“They look at you like you're a piece of paper, [...]. Like, you're just that. One flat surface, taken at face value, and that's it. Like there's nothing more to you than just whatever's presented, right? Just fun, like. Enjoyed and, and - [...] - and you're not like that. You're more like...a novel. You've got the cover, yeah, and it's fun or whatever, but then, like, there's so much more to it, isn't there? There's these incredible quotes and memorable passages and so much happens, so, so much and there's just...a lot, you know? It's something, it matters, and there's-there's substance there. You know?”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful