“I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.”
“How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?”
“How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”
“I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty”
“The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this. ”
“time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.”