“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”

“You are so beautiful, Jenna. Any man in this world would give uphis life to touch you once, just like this." -Lucas Thaler, Demon King”

“We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy.”

“Perfection is so beautiful and wonderful that even the stone-blind and purblind see it.”

“In the old times, when it was still of some use to wish for the thing one wanted, there lived a King whose daughters were all handsome, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun himself, who had seen so much, wondered each time he shone over her because of her beauty.”

“She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry.”