“Balder the beautiful/is dead, is dead!”
“The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.”
“I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.”
“Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.”
“Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.”
“I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.”