I never knew a woman could be fierce and beautiful and smart before I met you. Every time I see you I think of a hawk, beautiful and deadly.

Her mouth set. "I've already lost one man I loved tonight. I will not lose the other." She glared at him. "And curse you, you stone head, for making me say it first.

Avarice is a deadly sin.

The candy colored coral snake.
The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.
Décolletage.
Beware of conspicuous beauty.
Its venom can be deadly.

Short questions with long answers, my boy.

The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be discerned.