“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”

“When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.”

“"But tell me how it is that she could be so beautiful without any heart at all — without any place even for a heart to live in." "I cannot quite tell," she said; "but I am sure she would not look so beautiful if she did not take means to make herself look more beautiful than she is. And then, you know, you began by being in love with her before you saw her beauty … But the chief thing that makes her beautiful is this: that, although she loves no man, she loves the love of any man; and when she finds one in her power, her desire to bewitch him and gain his love (not for the sake of his love either, but that she may be conscious anew of her own beauty, through the admiration he manifests), makes her very lovely—with a self-destructive beauty…"”

“Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.”

“To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.”

“Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.”

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”

“Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.”

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”

“She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.”