“It embarrassed her, her own reflection. She had strong ideas of beauty that she did not find in herself: how tender the face must be, how thick the hair. She had strong thoughts about what it meant, to care too much about beauty. To want it, to search for it in oneself. In another. They weren't nice thoughts.” Beauty Book:The Safekeep Source: The Safekeep
“She was pretty in a way that men thought women ought to be pretty.” Beauty Book:The Safekeep Source: The Safekeep