Admiring Quotes

“There is no place like the beach... where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky”
― Umair Siddiqui

“Mr. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides..., " quoth she. Miss Tarabotti giggled. "Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. Bravo.”
― Gail Carriger, Soulless

“Speaking too highly of yourself might, at best, earn you admiration and respect, but by doing so, you are isolating yourself. You are constantly telling others how different you are from them and pushing them further away from you.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“My honey child, them housing projects
Cannot contain her multitudes
A sunbeam, hard upon her
Just a fly strugglin’ through her braid loops

Watch me prove to ‘em I’m more than nothin’
But a ragamuffin with homesick eyes
Yes, when it gets to be the same old thing
Shorty you ought to come and see about me

My love, she is a drummer
Than industrial steel, her backbone tougher
The eloping night and the honey moon that trails
Just dirt ‘neath her finger nails

I’ll be down on them crossroads
‘Til daybreak winks a bright eye
And if it gets to be the same old thing
Shorty you ought to come and see about me

She’s heard all the right things
And they did not persuade her
She has no use for your words
What she wants is your labor

‘Cause when gringos speak of minorities
They tend to keep their voices low
Ah, but when that gets to be the same old thing
Shorty you ought to come and see about me”
― Valentine Xavier

“Because they’re wet, Noah’s jeans are a bit stubborn sliding down, but he’s successful, and in the mirror I’m drawn to his naked body. I love the raw power of his shoulder blades and the curve of his back that trails lower to his...my mouth dries out...oh, crap...his butt is...how do I describe something so exquisite?
Everything about Noah is sexy, and as he bends to pull the jeans off his foot—
“If you get in the shower with me, Echo, you’d get a better look and you’d warm up.” ”
― Katie McGarry, Breaking the Rules

“You call that admiring? I call that eye rape.”
― Aishabella Sheikh, Converting The Bad Boy

“Never trust a dog who is watching your food....
And the guy admiring your lady.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Once it had been second nature to savour the contrast of new grass against dark, tilled soil, or an amethyst brooch nestled in folds of emerald silk; once I'd dreamed and breathed and thought in colour and light and shape. Sometimes I would even indulge in envisioning a day when my sisters were married and it was only me and Father, with enough food to go around, enough money to buy some paint, and enough time to put those colours and shapes down on paper and canvas or the cottage walls.

Not likely to happen anytime soon- perhaps ever. So I was left with moments like this, admiring the glint of pale winter light on snow. I couldn't remember the last time I'd done it- bothered to notice anything lovely or interesting.

Stolen hours in a decrepit barn with Issac Hale didn't count; those times were hungry and empty and sometimes cruel, but never lovely.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“If he's half as taken with you as you are with yourself, I imagine he'll be well pleased.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“So those abdominal exercises are useful beyond wanting to show off your muscles?'

He threw her a wry grin. 'You really think this is just for show?'

'I think I've caught you looking at yourself in that mirror at least a dozen times each lesson.' Nesta nodded to the slender mirror across the ring.

He chuckled. 'Liar. You use that mirror to watch me when you think I'm not paying attention.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Lucky for Joan, she was not watching when her devilish sons nearly knocked Layla off her feet in front of Fadden's Mini-Mart.
"How's it going?" Peter winked at Layla as his brother let out a low whistle.
Layla, having just sidestepped Benny Corcoran's admiration, was not prepared for the wily twins' attentions. With an enchanting combination of teenage timidity and self-assurance, she nodded briefly in their direction before ducking into the mini-mart.
"Jaysus. Did you see her?"
"See her? Michael, I think we've just witnessed a miracle.”
― Marsha Mehran, Pomegranate Soup

“Search yourself and find your passion
Stay in your circle of inspirational competence with emotional stability.
Shine your personality for others to follow
Have fun, enjoy yourself, and model your success!”
― Joseph S. Spence Sr.

“I want to see me have everything I want to see, I would like to read more pages, and see, some that I need to see I just want to remember me and find out about them, in addition to the one that I need to love, and I see that I had it and give it up. Yet I have to pick the right one- I see, and that is so… me… I don’t get what I need, or realized what I had, with them. I don’t know if it is the childhood boy or the sweet girl that plays with me that I need the most. Love is a hex, of not knowing what to love more. Just like the general public will come and go. Falling to someone shall stay.”
― Marcel Ray Duriez, Nevaeh A Void She Cannot Feel

“Lucien paused, and I found him smirking at me, making the scar even more brutal. 'Were you admiring my sword, or just contemplating killing me, Feyre?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“You look… beautiful,” he said, his voice jagged.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Heart of Night and Fire

“Caleb shot his friend a hard look. '
Caleb: Since when is looking at a pretty woman a crime?
Mike: Since never. Yet anyway," he added. I'm just saying she's single, you're single-what the gell, Boss?
Caleb: It's complicated and you know it
Mike: I know you can untangle any knot if you want to Bad enough
(Page 58)”
― Maureen Child, Runaway Temptation