473 Quotes About Description

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.

Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.

This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my blood, papercutting the lining of my veins.

Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness—these are the only things that are real.

Sometimes in the corner of my eye, I saw a girl running through the loft. A see-through girl, a silhouette. She looked the way the world looks without my glasses. Vaguely hued, indistinct. She looked the way a body looks underwater, lost in the blur of bubble and wave.

Dark-bright fire lit eyes

Mi ritrovai in un mondo cupo, dove la luce del Sole non poteva arrivare. Non vi era traccia di vita, l’erba ai miei piedi era secca, i pochi alberi attorno a me privi di foglie. Le rovine emergevano dalla terra, ricordi di un antico splendore, e alle mie spalle l’Altare riluceva, come le pietre che Caius ed io avevamo scoperto scalando il Monte Aletheia.

Zachariah's eyes were described as being of the deepest blue. Yet were a person to shine a light at him tonight, straight into his eyes, he would perceive them to be coloured amber, almost gold. He would perceive a wolfish glow.