“Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.”
“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
“They're beautiful. But sad.'Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”
“Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.”
“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”