“Pain always seemed to make her more beautiful.”
“She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.”
“Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.”
“As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.”
“she whispers it aloud, 'lorelei.' the sound makes her ache, makes the word even more beautiful, even more real. ”
“Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?”