Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought

The only thing we need to know is this: they bring home a paycheck.

We've known each other for almost half our lives.
I've seen you smiling, confident, blissfully happy.
I've seen you broken, wounded, lost.
But I've never seen you like this.
You taught me to look for beauty. In darkness, in destruction, you always found light.
I don't know what beauty I'll find here, what light. But I'll try. I'll do it for you. Because I know you would do it for me.
There was so much beauty in our life together.

As a stone tumbled in coarse reality, constantly worn as it is refined, adversity, it's true beauty shows. So it is by trial we find, all that we are capable of, the strength which lies beneath.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Beauty is like a rose, sharp but if you hold it right you see the very essence of it's existence.