Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry.. . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.J. Ruth Gendler
About This Quote
"Beauty is startling" refers to the power of beauty. It can be used to describe something so shocking that it makes us take notice. It puts us on alert, prompting us to think about the person in question. It also suggests that someone so stunningly beautiful that you can’t take your eyes off them because you just have to know what they are thinking, where they are going, and who they are with.
Source: The Book Of Qualities
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