209 Quotes About Descriptive

She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it.

The child was slender as fleeting hope.

On a field of white, Minna has appliqued pieces of fabric that together paint a scene. A young girl sits by a tree-lined brook. If I'd had more time, I think I might have imagined my way inside, my sore feet dangling in the calm water, the breeze braiding through my hair. It is as pretty as a picture on a penny postcard.

One thing that I had loved in Paraguay was the ironic grass that showed the tip of its nose between the pavements of the capital, that slipped in on behalf of the invisible but ever-present virgin forest to see if man still held the town, if the hour had not come to send all those stones tumbling.- from Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine St. Exupery (1939)

*You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in his head instructed. *As you reach the state of sleep, you will slip your body off as you would a coat. Start from your heart and mind, for they are the links that most bind you to the mortal plane. See? This is how it is done...* - Chapter 4

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

How wonderful, to walk half drunk with a Lemonsoda on a muggy night like this around the gleaming slate cobblestones of Rome with someone's arm around me.

Outdoors; everything one might dream. The fairy-gray clouded sky and the fairy-green misted wood. Her tall horse shying at a sparkling brook. All dreams.

I spent a long time fallingtoward your slender, tremulous face—a long time slipping through starsas they shattered, through sticky cloudswith no confetti in them.