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Daily Inspiration Quote by Drew Barrymore

"Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful"

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There’s something disarmingly generous in the idea that a kiss doesn’t even need a landing spot to count. Barrymore’s line takes a gesture we associate with intimacy and turns it into a portable mood: affection as atmosphere. “Even to the air” is the tell. It admits the reality of distance, missed connections, social boundaries, and the small grief of not being able to touch - then refuses to let that reality make the impulse any less valid.

The intent feels less like poetry for poetry’s sake and more like a survival tactic: keep the heart in motion. A blown kiss is what you do from a car window, across a stage, through an airport barrier, at a child who’s already sprinting away. It’s love adjusted for modern logistics. The subtext is that tenderness doesn’t have to be reciprocated in real time to matter; the act itself can be a kind of self-definition. You’re saying, I’m still someone who reaches.

Coming from Barrymore, the line carries extra cultural charge. Her public story is a long negotiation with exposure: a child star turned tabloid fixture turned adult who has repeatedly rebuilt her image around warmth and approachability. “Kisses…are beautiful” reads like a reclamation of softness as strength, a refusal of cynicism as sophistication. In an era that rewards irony and emotional armoring, she’s arguing for the dignity of unguarded gestures - even the ones that evaporate the moment you make them.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Barrymore, Drew. (2026, January 17). Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/kisses-even-to-the-air-are-beautiful-59646/

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Barrymore, Drew. "Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/kisses-even-to-the-air-are-beautiful-59646/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/kisses-even-to-the-air-are-beautiful-59646/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is a Actress from USA.

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