What struck Cole as odd when he finally noticed all the beauty the world had to offer? Chapter 12

Cole found it strange that he had never seen the world's beauty, and he embraced the way it made him feel. He found it odd that in the same moment he felt most alive, his body was at its weakest.

It struck Cole as odd that he should feel this way at the very moment when his body had reached the point at which it could no longer exist.