How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
He had probably reasoned that they were at the same level […] People would accept them as a couple; it made both logical and aesthetic sense. (1.125)
This seems like a ridiculous idea, but is it ever true in real life? Do people of similar levels of beauty really tend to end up together?
Quote #5
At fifty [Ethan] was as deeply homely as he'd been at fifteen, but his curls had thinned out and turned a kind of burned goldish silver, and his homeliness gave him cachet. (3.7)
In this book, appearance and attractiveness (or lack of it) is a kind of currency that can earn—or lose you—prestige.