Self-Quoting Memery

[pjthompson]

As many others have said, "Post your favorite or most intriguing sentence from works in progress."


This self-quoting meme is taken from my novel Shivery Bones, publication forthcoming...if anyone should happen to buy it.  :-)  I am not at all sure this group of sentences works, and I don't think it's my favorite, but this was the most quotable chunk I found in a hurried look through.

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"Love," Jolene sighed.

The sun was a golden apple sliced in half by the horizon of the sea.  The ocean glittered like sharp knives.  The light of the setting sun shone in a pathway towards the shore, pointing to the hill, straight up the hill to the house, through the center of the yard to the widow's walk at the house's crown where Jolene sat and watched.  On top of the world, removed from it, unable to move from it, caught, held.  Watching.

"Love," she repeated.  "Or just desire?"

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Comments

[maggiemotley.livejournal.com]

This is the scene that's echoed by Caius later, isn't it? I like :-)