Lexie Mealey

“...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“Is there a relative value of beauty? Is evanescence - fleetingness - a necessary element of the thing that most moves us? A shooting star dazzles more than the sun. A child captivates like an elf, but grows into grossness, an ogre, a harpy. A flower splays itself into color - the lilies of the field! - more treasured than any painting of a flower. But of all these things, women's grace, shooting stars, flowers, and paintings, only a painting endures.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself." - The Sacred Echo”
― Margaret Feinberg, The Sacred Echo

“So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister