“How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?”
“The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.”
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
“How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic." p 108”
“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”
“We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy.”