Maggie StiefvaterI don’t care to be pretty, ” Blue shot back hotly, “I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.
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Blue is saying she doesn’t care about how she looks on the outside. She cares about how she looks on the inside. Blue is saying that she doesn’t care to be attractive, but she does care to look like a real person, not an image put out there by people who would rather see her as something besides herself.
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