It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.
Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
Beautiful is dangerous.
But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.
