Teaser Tuesday (14): The Poppy and the Rose by Ashlee Cowles

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should be Reading. Anyone can participate in Teaser Tuesdays. Just do the following:
• Grab your read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your 
teasers!

This week my teasers are coming from The Poppy and the Rose by Ashlee Cowles. I'm so excited to share teasers from this book because the writing is too beautiful not to be shared. So my teasers this week to give you a taste of The Poppy and the Rose are:

"For its grand finale, Titanic's stern climbed into the starry heavens like a lone Manhattan skyscraper, transforming the miracle of electric lighting into a horror--a great and terrible beauty."

"Waiting cracked open even hearts as hard as a walnut shell and only an open heart can be filled." 

Page 206.

Choosing these teasers was so hard because this book is so full of great lines, but I settled on these, hoping that I am doing the great lines justice.