An American Beauty Quotes

“today the earth spins on and still carries you with it. Today you will survive.”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“I have found that the uprooting of a life, the shedding of expectations and preconceived notions of others, can be a great blessing. I lived through the war, sir. Of course, we all did, but I lived through it in Richmond, a cinder of a town, thousands of souls trapped without recourse. We suffered starvation. Ruin. And perhaps it’s only what we deserved, for all the evils surrounding us that we did nothing to stop. That is for God to judge,”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“The Art of Wealth: The Huntingtons in the Gilded Age by Shelley M. Bennett”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“Nothing is certain. Take what you can, when you can.”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“spectacles. And the truth was always more interesting than anything else.”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“Anyway, handsome was never a detail that she dwelled upon for long; handsome was merely a mask over a truth, like”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“handsome was merely a mask over a truth, like spectacles. And the truth was always more interesting than anything else.”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“She had been, in short, the inevitable result of everything she had been raised to be, frothy and naïve, a girl with barely a notion of her own universe, its rights and its monstrous wrongs.”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“greeted him,”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty