“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”

“Not just your face was changed by the knife. Your personality— the real you inside— was the price of beauty.”

“You look beautiful - David”

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

“Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

“Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.”

“But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.”