August 29th, 2007
Have you ever heard someone else utter a phrase and think, “Oh, that’s good. I’ve got to use that in a book someday.”
I had that experience a couple of days ago when the hubby and I were looking out at our poor, pathetic, drought-ridden lawn. The exchange went like this:
Me: “Yeah, it’s a lovely shade of–”
Hubby: “Dead.”
It just struck me as funny, and I could imagine a Buffy-type character using “a lovely shade of dead” to describe one of the vampires she’s hunting. Or it could be used to describe someone with a grayish complexion, dead vegetation, or any number of things that have seen better days.
What phrases have you overhead that you immediately filed away to go in a book someday?
August 29th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
rcLOL!!! That’s a great line!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Your DH does stand up… where?
LOLOLOL…
Can’t think of a line off the top of my head, but I surely will at about 2 a.m. tonight.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I like your new puppy. His feet are huge…
August 29th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
BWAHAHAHA!!!!
August 29th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
He is a funny guy. As you can tell by his ID on that third comment to this post — button fuzz.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
That is an awesome line! No, I don’t have an original line, but I love the line by Pat COnroy in Prince of Tides, “The funeral parlour smelled like dead flowers and unanswered prayers.”
How awesome is that?
Though every line he writes can stand alone. Sigh.
Teri
August 30th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
That is a great line, Teri. Would you believe I’ve not read Pat Conroy? So many books, so little time!