“Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!”

“Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”

“Hedge was enthralled by her symmetry, yet the word was too cool and dry. She was beautiful.”

“I stared at the words and they did not swim or blur. Rats have no tears. Dry and cold was the world and beautiful the words. Words of good-bye and farewell, farewell and so long, from the little one and the Big One. I folded the passage up again and I ate it.”

“You have rare beauty the like I have never seen but you will be more beautiful heavy with my seed,” he stated softly.”

“How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic." p 108”