“Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.”
“No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.”
“On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing. But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world.”
“It doesn't matter how far you go as a boxer..It matters how far you go as a man!”
“A mask, no matter how beautiful, is still a mask”
“And the beautiful are forgiven; no matter how egregious their shortcomings, they are forgiven.”