“Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.”

“Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible”

“It’s hard to see what’s good, what’s right, when you’re in the middle of it”

“Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.”

“You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.”

“Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing - in the eye of the beholder - but that wasn't really true anymore.”