“Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.”

“Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.”

“It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.”

“For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.”

“She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.”

“Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.”

“Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.”