"It's just the body." I repeated.

"That's not true at all." He disagreed. "It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the things you do with it. You are beautiful."

-Wanda and Ian
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It felt sort of like a razor sliding between my ribs when he said that- too clean and precise to be compared to a blow or a break.

- Wanda.

Two really meaningful quotes from the Host. BTW, this is the first book that managed to get me THIS CLOSE into bursting into tears.