“She smelled like a rose, and she tasted like a rose petal.”
“And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart”
“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”
“She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.”
“Life is an adventure of love that unfolds like the petals of a rose, transforming into a beauty that is boundless.”
“She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]....”