Bleu, of course I'd reference Audrey Hepburn and the movie and the novella. To not do so is heresy!
Writer's Choice: Mirrors
The day she looks in a mirror and likes what she sees, the day the apocalypse comes. It's not that she doesn't think she's wildly attractive.
It's that mirrors lie. They twist light and reflect back every single detail that doesn't want to be seen. They reinforce the idea that beauty is skin deep, and that her skin is horrible.
Erin says that. "Beauty is only skin deep." But then she smirks and says, "As if anyone ever fell for a pair of attractive kidneys."
It's strange, then, on her wedding day, that she tolerates, and might even grudgingly like, her appearance in the mirror.
And the world hasn't ended yet.
Reference; "Beauty is only skin deep" is a proverb first used, I think, by Sir Thomas Overbury. Erin's line came from Maskerade by Terry Pratchett, and almost killed me when I first read it a few years ago. And this writer's choice marks the end of my Writer's Choices, which have now been: Rock, Paper, Scissors and Smoke and Mirrors.