“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the things you do with it. You are beautiful.”

—  Stephenie Meyer, book The Host

Ian O'Shea to Wanderer, p. 390
The Host (2008)

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