“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

“Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end.”

“Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.”

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”

“Good thing or bad thing must surely come to an end but absoluety nothing last forever”

“You act as if I were your enemy.“You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.”And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?“There is no need to hasten that end,” Vin said. “No reason to force it.”All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch on her—wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?Vin fell silent.Do not mourn because the day of this world’s end has arrived, Ruin said. That end was ordained the very day of the world’s conception. There is a beauty in death—the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.”