“My date brought me a bouquet of nearly dead roses. I had to cradle them in the crook of my elbow, but their heads kept slipping off my arm like a drunken woman being carried to bed" (pg 105).
Paris in Love, by Eloisa James
What a tangible visual!
ReplyDeleteI know! Good example of the power of literary devices!
DeleteLovely quote! Paris in love sounds like a nice book (I went to look it up on goodreads :))
ReplyDeleteIt's set up as longer essays to start a chapter and then the rest of a chapter is in snippets. She kept a journal and FB posts as she lived there and these snippets are from those two places.
DeleteI love it when an author is able to capture so vividly, and with unique words, their perspective of a moment. This was so highly visual, as AG said above.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I just finished the book and it was okay, not really my preferred way of setting up a story. But, her descriptions, like above, were great. They always caught my eye.
DeleteWhat an odd quote, yet it works.
ReplyDeleteYea, the oddness adds to it in a weird way!
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