“Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.”

“When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe.”

“Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.”