45 Quotes About Descriptive-writing

I was overjoyed two weeks later when I received 6 letter pages back from Alex. Three of which were devoted to memories of the times in Alex’s childhood when he’d been intimidated by boys in sewage tunnels and of the violence that ensued. After the passage in which Alex detailed the anatomy of the human nose and how weak it is in comparison to a swiftly butted forehead, I asked him just exactly who I had become pen pals with….

Slim spent a total of 36 years in Boggo Road.). ..He knows what a well-written letter means to a man inside. It means connection, humanity. It means waking up. He’s been writing letters to Boggo Road inmates for years using false names on the envelopes because the screws would never pass a letter on from Arthur “Slim” Halliday, the man who knows how to escape their red brick wall fortress, better than anyone. …

It would take another Ice Age to cool this man off.

The night rain sheeted the street, blowing almost horizontally with the gusts of wind.

We are still nearer the winter edge of spring on this cool and misty May afternoon, the scent of wood smoke in the air — a remnant of the afternoon fire.

She watched the thick, clear plastic sheeting covering the hole on the roof rise and fall in tune with the wintry blasts like the last gasps of a dying man.

El tiempo había cambiado, desaparecían las nubes y ante él se extendía una llanura cubierta de un tapiz blanco y ondulante.

Me da vergüenza recordar cómo grité, con qué voz tan estridente, hasta desesperada, «¡Cochero!», cuando lo tenía a dos pasos de mí.

Un gran caballo bayo alargó el pescuezo, arqueó la espalda, avanzó tranquilamente por el camino todo cubierto de nieve, moviendo su greñuda cabeza, e irguió una oreja repleta de nieve cuando se cruzó con nosotros.