An American Beauty Quotes

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

“The world is tilted now, askew. A brilliance that existed before is gone. A life is gone. A soul is gone. How can the earth still be turning without him? How can there be a sunrise? It feels as if the very stars should darken and plummet from the sky.”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“Mother taught me to cut my way through as ruthlessly as she did and never mind the thorns, because when the thorns scratch and we bleed, we learn from it. We heal stronger. She taught me to welcome the summer days as well as those of frost, because waking up to either meant I was still alive, and as long as I was alive, I could force my fate into a better place.”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“And if you love someone, even if they don’t love you back, all you hope for is their happiness, don’t you? Their joy.”
― Shana Abe, An American Beauty

“No, you’re different now,” replied the mistress. “You feel it inside, don’t you? You’re more now than what you were before you came in here. You’re stronger. You’re more resilient. And nothing those little wretches can say or do can truly wound you. You remember that. No matter what comes, you think back to this moment, and you remember the truth.”
― 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