The Beautiful-Ugly Quotes

“Not being a part of them felt better.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“When you are finally purged, brought to nothing, at ground zero, all is exposed, all is laid bare, nothing hidden—then do you know yourself. Self-knowledge as purpose for this ordeal, this journey, we call existence.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“forever in moody meditation with those vague drifting airs”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“she enjoyed her freedom to choose things, to have control of things, not to take on commitments she couldn’t discard, like a bad dress, at a moment’s notice. That, and just the way she looked at things. Like fashion. Which was always new. Always changing.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“when you die, all the there’s go with you.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“It was too much. Just too much. She felt like a starving dog trapped inside a meat factory.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“Art can only assert itself when real life stands aside a moment.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“Instead, she could stay there, surrounded by her sweet, odd friends, and forget everything that had happened, or might happen, and have her own fragile and empty peace of mind,”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“Then there was that awful feeling again that nothing that was happening to her, or even what she was thinking, was real.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“she was tired of not knowing, and not having,”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“but I like to get away from everyone. I like to be by myself mostly. That’s always easier.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“What you need to understand is that there are things in life besides what you want and what Jesus wants.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“When she turned eight and was in the Fourth Grade, she began to notice things.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly

“She could feel his fingers, first one, then another, like little crooked worms, inside her.”
― James Snyder, The Beautiful-Ugly