“Severine pulls the ugly out of me. Emilia pulls everything out of me, and finds it all good— even the ugly side.”
“She taught me not to block out ugliness by giving imagined beauty false dominion: but that on the other hand, in the midst of hatred and ugliness there is color, there is life, and there is ...personal usefullness... as well.”
“I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That's why he makes me stand out here in the cold. - excerpt from: freefalling”
“You're stuck with me now; the good, bad and the ugly.”
“Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge.”
“A slap wouldn’t have pulled me out of the trance any faster.”