The next minute he realized what had happened to him, but not before she’d caught him staring. For a decade, I was fixated by her beauty. I wrote an entire article on the evolutionary significance of beauty as a rebuke to myself, that I, who understood the concepts so well, nevertheless could not escape the magnetic pull of one particular woman’s beauty. She knew. With surgical precision, she had peeled back his layers of defenses, until his heart lay bare before her, all its shame and yearning exposed. He could have lived with this if only he’d kept his secret whole and buried. But she knew. She knew. Sherry Thomas
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The author of this quote explains how he loved a woman but could never get out of the way of her beauty. He loved her so deeply that he could not help but stare at her for hours on end. This fixation was so strong that it forced him to publish an article on the evolutionary significance of beauty in an attempt to make himself feel better. The author then continues by saying that she knew, which meant that she knew he loved her, but still did nothing to stop his obsession. As the author said, "she peeled back his layers of defenses until his heart lay bare before her." This statement shows how strong this woman's beauty was, because the author had built up such a strong wall around his heart and soul in order to keep her out and yet somehow she found a way to peel back his defenses and lay bare every secret, every yearning that he had kept hidden for years.

Source: Beguiling The Beauty

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