“While we were in Midland, Mom painted dozens of variations and studies of the Joshua tree...I wanted to dig it up and replant it neat our house...Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
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“She had always been beautiful. Even now, in the midst of all this misery, war suited her.”
“He was beautiful and still is, we just couldn’t flow within the same constellation.”
“The beautiful is beautiful. The beautiful is noble. The beautiful is difficult.”