Gawkiness Quotes & Sayings

She watched the glass, a plain woman, changing all to the delightful illusion of beauty. There was still time: for her ugliness was destined to bloom late, hidden first by the unformed gawkiness of youth, budding to plainness in young womanhood and now flowering to slow maturity in her early forties, it still awaited the subtle garishness which only decay could bring to fruition: a garishness which, when arrived at, would preclude all efforts at the mirror game. — Brian Moore

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. — Jeanette Winterson

Everyone has a good heart. It's our mind which gets polluted by so much negativity from the external world. — Maddy Malhotra

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. — John Forbes Nash

We have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing. — Muriel Spark

Survival, I know, is to begin again. — Judy Collins

I reached out my hand to her. She had been there at the table, this sad, kind, talented woman. She had heard everything, but had been unable to speak to us. — Priya Parmar