While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.
They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
No one is exempt from grief.
This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.
It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.