““While I waited for him in the woods, waiting for him before he saw me, I would think of him as dressed in sin. I would think of him as thinking of me as dressed also in sin, he the more beautiful since the garment which he had exchanged for sin was sanctified. I would think of the sin as garments which we would remove in order to shape and coerce the terrible blood to the forlorn echo of the dead word high in the air.””
![“But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in [God] but in myself and his other creatures” quote by Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ee/augustine-of-hippo-2589_beauty_but-my-sin-was-this-that-i-looked-for-pl_2041368.jpg)
![“That was when I saw it: behind the beauty and fake innocence was something else, something cold and calculating. Even when she smiled, I could see sin so deeply ingrained in her that no cardigan could hide it. [...] To anyone else, she was pure and naive, but this girl was hiding something. I knew…” quote by Jamie McGuire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a0a/jamie-mcguire-215_appearance_that-was-when-i-saw-it-behind-the-beauty_1314641.jpg)
