“Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.”

“They were drugged, stone in love. To them every scar on the face of the world was a beauty mark.”

“You are beautiful," Tenar said in a different tone. "Listen to me, Therru. Come here. You have scars, ugly scars, because an ugly, evil thing was done to you. People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren't the scars. You aren't ugly. You aren't evil. You are Therru, and beautiful. You are Therru who can work, and walk, and run, and dance, beautifully, in a red dress.”

“Because nobody goes though life without a scar.”

“A scar is never ugly. We must see all scars as beauty. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived.”

“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.”