Great Lines from The Paragon Hotel (7)

“Officers Taffy and Overton are verily apples and iguanas. Taffy is the apple—significant beer paunch, Irish complexion, the vaguest border between chin and neck.”

“Overton blinks like a priest eyeing a roast.”

“He turns out to be an enormous charcoal-colored fellow, with a bald head and a rhino’s posture and a voice that makes you think God just dropped by for a stern word.”

“Her hair is coarse, voluminous, pinned atop her head like an antique Gibson Girl, and an altogether unfair shade of strawberry blond. It’s a veritable glowing pile of marmalade locks.”

“Mrs. Vaughan blinks, and suddenly her lip arcs in a snarl worthy of the deepest, darkest woods.”

While The Paragon Hotel is not my favorite Faye novel, but her gift for imaginative and delicious lines shines brilliantly on these pages, too. If you’ve not read any Lindsay Faye, I’d recommend her work! Smart and beautifully descriptive mysteries. Check her out in goodreads.

Damaged, but still sturdy and true…

Like a rusty church bell, blasted from its tower in a war-torn country, Sophia had been knocked down and damaged, but she was still sturdy and true. With time, and a little help getting back up, I knew I’d hear from her again.

What an important thing for all of us to remember. We get knocked down. We get damaged. But we can get back up, and we can help others, too. This is a line from Suddenly Rural Girl, the Christian YA Novel I’m close to wrapping up. Soon, I’ll move into the fun and challenging publication process. For more quotes from SRG, other authors I’m reading, and updates on Suddenly Rural Girl, follow my blog at https://dannhurlbert.com/littletips or my Facebook page @Dann Hurlbert, Author. Thanks in advance!

Please is enough.

She masked her pain until she couldn’t take it anymore, and now here I was, for the second time in a week, witnessing her vulnerability. I wanted to walk away. It was her problem, after all. I couldn’t fix it.

But I had to try. 

I didn’t have to like her, or trust her, but I decided I was no longer going to be afraid of her. I needed to do something. But what? My fingers reached anxiously for a braid, but then I stopped them and folded my hands at my waist. Dear God, I prayed silently to myself. Help me . . . help me to . . . And then I remembered Jackson’s comment in the woods.

“Please is enough.”

So, I wordlessly added, Help me . . . please. 

This feels like an important passage from Suddenly Rural Girl, the Christian YA Novel I’m close to wrapping up. I’m looking forward to shifting from the editing to the publication phase, soon, and that’ll be another fun and challenging process. For more quotes from SRG, other authors I’m reading, and updates on Suddenly Rural Girl, follow my blog at https://dannhurlbert.com/littletips or my Facebook page @Dann Hurlbert, Author. Thanks in advance!

Great Lines from The Paragon Hotel (6)

“…some girls dream of wedding dresses and fashion veils from day-old newspaper. I dreamed of standing in front of a bullet for a friend.”

“I edged silent as a cat’s tail through the swinging door…”

“My stomach had relocated to my shoes.”

“The truth is, I’ve been shoving thoughts underwater like unwanted puppies. When your world is emptied, you cling to strangers, clutch straws so as not to fall off entirely.”

“The ice pick of alarm spears my heart. Two fresh arrivals stand before us…”

While The Paragon Hotel is not my favorite Faye novel, but her gift for imaginative and delicious lines shines brilliantly on these pages, too. If you’ve not read any Lindsay Faye, I’d recommend her work! Smart and beautifully descriptive mysteries. Check her out in goodreads.

Great Lines from the Paragon Hotel (5)

“Lighting it, he hands it over. I take a drag. It’s asphalt and moonlight, better than the soup.”

“Max’s deep-set eyes narrow. They’re darker than gold, lighter than bronze. The color of an elegant brass rail in a speakeasy. Or, better still, of a pocket watch that’s been taken out and consulted over a few generations.”

“The old bird is in the market for fresh feathers.”

“Her long hair undulates, glossy and black as piano keys, and her shockingly full lips part company in dismay.”

“Of course she isn’t like us, look at her,” Blossom snaps, making a balletic orbit with her empty hand. “That doesn’t mean she’s like them. Think for a moment. If you can. A frog isn’t like a flamingo. That doesn’t make it a hippopotamus.””

While The Paragon Hotel is not my favorite Faye novel, her gift for imaginative and delicious lines shines brilliantly on these pages, too. If you’ve not read any Lindsay Faye, I’d recommend her work! Smart and beautifully descriptive mysteries. Check her out in goodreads.

Great Lines from The Paragon Hotel (4)

“Her tone is full of cordial but tightly bottled.”

“The laddie makes my heart do pony tricks.”

“Max chuckles. I’ve never seen him laugh before, and it’s a spill of light, crowding everything else from his face.”

“There are stories in this soup—Miss Christina’s stories. I wonder where she learned them, and why they taste this complicated.”

While The Paragon Hotel is not my favorite Faye novel, her gift for imaginative and delicious lines shows in this, too.If you’ve not read any Lindsay Faye, I’d recommend her work! Smart and beautifully descriptive mysteries. Check her out in goodreads.

Confrontation.

“Why are you here?!” I blurted, assailing him angrily with my tone. Ten zealous steps later, I was standing directly in front of his gloved hands, which were clenching and unclenching under his downturned chin.

This is another line from Suddenly Rural Girl, the YA Novel I’m close to wrapping up. Soon, I’ll move into the fun and challenging publication process. For more quotes from SRG, other authors I’m reading, and updates on Suddenly Rural Girl, follow my blog at https://dannhurlbert.com/littletips or my Facebook page @Dann Hurlbert, Author. Thanks in advance!

Moms and daughters…

Again, the line was silent. Sometimes moms and daughters put too many words between them. Sometimes silence creates the distance.

This is another line from Suddenly Rural Girl, the Christian YA Novel I’m close to wrapping up. I’m looking forward to shifting from the editing to the publication phase, soon, and that’ll be fun and challenging process. For more quotes from SRG, other authors I’m reading, and updates on Suddenly Rural Girl, follow my blog at https://dannhurlbert.com/littletips or my Facebook page @Dann Hurlbert, Author. Thanks in advance!

Great Lines from The Paragon Hotel (3)

“He was a short, squat Sicilian who brought to mind a horse turd…”

“When the local delinquents tried to take my coin, I fought like a wet cat, twisting, biting, clawing. And usually winning.”

“the moon a wicked smirk,”

“Mavereen’s finger rises to point down the hallway. It’s an inexorable gesture. A sunrise. There is no arguing with it.”

While The Paragon Hotel is not my favorite Faye novel, her gift for imaginative and delicious lines shows in this, too.If you’ve not read any Lindsay Faye, I’d recommend her work! Smart and beautifully descriptive mysteries. Check her out in goodreads.

“This would be a night for dreamcatchers.”

“This would be a night for dreamcatchers. The images I consumed today would certainly play across the back of my eyelids if I tried to sleep, and I hoped the bad dreams would be caught in the circular web, rather than racing through my mind.“

I’ve shared great quotes from various authors I’m reading, and here’s a favorite from Suddenly Rural Girl, the Christian YA Novel I’m close to wrapping up. Soon I’ll shift from the editing to the publication phase–which will be another process. For more quotes from SRG, other authors I’m reading, and updates on Suddenly Rural Girl, follow my blog at https://dannhurlbert.com/littletips or my Facebook page @Dann Hurlbert, Author.

Meet Mary from SRG

“Sometimes I’m so focused on basketball, or soccer, or volleyball, or whatever else…that I don’t take time to see–or smell–life.” Incredibly, Mary was on the verge of tears, but I knew she’d keep it contained. She doesn’t break down. She doubles down. Where I might blubber and fall apart, Mary would channel those emotions into competitiveness or overcome something or kicking someone’s butt.

I’m looking forward to shifting from the editing to the publication phase of my YA Christian novel, Suddenly Rural Girl. This is another glimpse at one of the characters. For more quotes from SRG, other authors I’m reading, and updates on Suddenly Rural Girl, follow my blog at https://dannhurlbert.com/littletips or my Facebook page @Dann Hurlbert, Author.

“If a girl’s gonna make something of herself…”

“I got this,” I said, turning away from Liam’s hand and stepping toward the edge. If a girl’s gonna make something of herself, she can’t do it holding hands with some boy–no matter how cute he is.“

A great line from my forthcoming Christian YA novel, Suddenly Rural Girl. For more quotes from Dann and other author’s he’s reading follow this blog and Dann Hurlbert, Author on Facebook.