“Everyone can use a little beauty.”

“Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose: I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost.”

“In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.”

“I am living my death, little by little, each day.”

“She's using me. And I like it.”

“Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”

“But this girl isn't just beautiful. She's perfect in a way that's unreal”