How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at …

Janet Fitch
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How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer. ✨ Janet Fitch (2013). White Oleander, p.222, Hachette UK
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