How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.
A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.