Yes it would be okay. You are only using it for 2 things. Not everything.
The writer is trying to portray a love and hate relationship for the person and place he is writing about. This is because the writer talks about loving a girl and wanting to hold her hands in his sweater but at the same time he doesn’t like the sand on the beach or the cold weather.
That is a painting of Judith and her Maidservant. 1615 painting by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It hangs in the Pitti Palace, Florence.