Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
There is just something about this quote that has stayed with me since the first time I read the novel last year. It was the page I kept turning back to, the one line I kept reading. I didn't really know why until I thought about what it meant to me. I don't think that Vonnegut means that everything in life is going to be beautiful and that we are not going to experience any pain, because I think we all know that is not true. I do think that this quote is a reminder that the things we should focus one are the things which are beautiful, the things which bring us joy.
When I go through the novel, I find that this is a lesson Vonnegut tries to teach his readers from the opening to the close. There is a lot of pain within the pages of the novel, a lot of tragedy and unspeakable horrors, but even as the characters look upon scenes of utter destruction, there are things that are beautiful. There is hope. That is probably one of the reasons I like this book so much. It has its flaws, I will admit, and there are pieces of it I think are a bit offensive and inappropriate, but behind all that is on the surface, I think the author is just trying to give his readers something that this world doesn't really seem to have a lot of anymore: hope.
I mean, if you can live through even a few of the things this author has experienced, and still have hope, you really have something. It's inspiring, I think.
I guess that's probably why this particular line has stuck with me. Even with all of the bad we experience on a daily basis, with all of the things we see and hear and feel, there is some kind of hope. Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.