“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from constellations. She used chimes now and then, the chimes that characterized every patio in Arizona, the piano, the trees combed by wind. A prelude to a storm. It was like discovering the secret room in a dream of your house that holds all the magic. It was music I wished I lived inside. Around us, cactus, hills filled with jumping cholla, the heat of August like another animal heaving over us.” BeautifulMusicMetaphorDescriptionSimileDescriptiveSonoraHannah Lillith Assadi Book:Sonora Source: Sonora
“His presence suddenly made things feel off-kilter, gorgeous as if being crushed in lush velvet while cascading off the edge of a cliff.” DescriptionSimileSonoraHannah Lillith Assadi Book:Sonora Source: Sonora
“She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow.” SmokingDescriptionSimileSonoraHannah Lillith AssadiCigarettes Book:Sonora Source: Sonora
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.” HomeMetaphorSettingDesertDescriptionSonoraHannah Lillith Assadi Book:Sonora Source: Sonora
“There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.” StarsSkyMoonDescriptionMilky WaySonoraHannah Lillith Assadi Book:Sonora Source: Sonora
“Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of the world above, it was as if we were underwater.” TearsDescriptionCryingSonoraHannah Lillith Assadi Book:Sonora Source: Sonora
“It was so pure, the snow, the purest of all powders, I thought, so pure it must be from elsewhere, from another planet.” SnowDescriptionSonoraHannah Lillith AssadiOtherworldly Book:Sonora Source: Sonora
“I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.” DeathHistorySettingDescriptionSonoraHannah Lillith AssadiWhat Lies Beneath Book:Sonora Source: Sonora
“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.” GhostDescriptionSonoraHannah Lillith Assadi Book:Sonora Source: Sonora