"A floor so glorious it had been photographed by several decorating magazines."
We don't have a lot of happy stories around here.
Mama says you were incorrigible. I bet she does. I'm incorrigible too. Only she doesn't know it.
A floor so glorious it had been photographed by several decorating magazines. Made from pure ivory, cut into squares, it lit up the room from below. That room and its decadent floor had me awestruck, all the more so because it was forbidden to me.
pp. 69, paperback edition of Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn