Beautiful Description Quotes

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Laurie Lee
“She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.”
Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie

Laini Taylor
“In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats.”
Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

Laline Paull
“Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.”
Laline Paull, The Bees

Anne Rice
“I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.”
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

Rebecca Yarros
“I hate how beautiful he is, how lethal his abilities make him as he strides toward me, shadows curling around his footsteps. He’s like one of those poisonous flowers I’ve read about from the Cygnis forests to the east. His allure is a warning not to get too close, and I am definitely too close.”
Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

J.Y.  Yang
“A world of hot wind and bursting stars”
J.Y. Yang, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

Tomi Adeyemi
“I know she has eyes like the moon. I know the faded scar that nicks her eyebrow.”
Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone