And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Madeline Miller
And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if...
And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if...
And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if...
And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if...
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And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. Luminous is a noun that describes something that is glowing. The moon is luminous. The word pale is an adjective that describes something that is almost white.

The moon is impossibly pale. To describe something as impossibly pale means that it is so impossibly pale that it seems to be almost white.

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