“Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.”

“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”

“Life is beautiful, and this work is even more beautiful than life.”

“It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.”

“So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara)
No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)”

“Decisive breakthroughs in military medical administration came just after the turn of the twentieth century. Until then, in even the best-managed armies, disease was always a far more lethal factor than enemy action, even during active campaigns.”

“Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.”

“they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the most beautiful
things
on earth?”