“I’m not really beautiful,’ she said to herself, ‘but tonight I feel beautiful. And I look like a girl who feels beautiful.' (84)”
“But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful,”
“And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.”
“...she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands."There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.”
“And you look beautiful," she added."I look like a cake.""But a beautiful cake.”
“I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-""Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.”