“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!”

“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”

“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”

“It’s possible that no one who didn’t grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the anonymity of city life feels like freedom.”

“How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”

“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”

“A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.”

“How goodness heightens beauty!”

“How I'm moved.
How you move me
With your beauty's potency.”