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The kitchen light gleams on her pale hair, on the silk covering her shoulders.

Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon.

It was not a bright or splendid summer evening, though fair and soft: […] its blue—where blue was visible—was mild and settled, and its cloud strata high and thin. The west, too, was warm: no watery gleam chilled it—it seemed as if there was a fire lit, an altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour, and out of apertures shone a golden redness.

La dame était d'une beauté à couper le souffle. Sa peau, d'une extrême blancheur faisant naître le désir chez les hommes. Ses yeux étaient immenses, dorés, et son regard hypnotique. Une bouche ressemblant à un fruit mûr se dessinait sur son visage éclatant de beauté.

Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

She sees Lake Michigan lapping at the shores ofherself. It is a dizzy hole of water and the richlive in tall glass houses at the edge of it.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. Chainsaw eyed herself briefly before hiding on the other side of Ronan's neck; Adam did the same, but without the hiding-in-Ronan's-neck bit. Even Blue looked less fanciful that usual, the lighting rendering her lampshade dress and spiky hair as a melancholy Pierrot.