“How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?”

“Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.”

“I suppose The Beautiful Woman Who Can Manipulate the World with Her Mind' is too unweildy.”

“Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.”

“That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.”

“It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.”

“Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?”