How does the author use imagery in the novel, This Wicked Fate?

Examples of Imagery:

"She swept me into an embrace with all the tenderness of family, born out of blood or choice, it made no difference in that moment.”

"Your lives burn so bright and yet so brief. You burn with the light of a million feelings, longing and angst, elation … love. What I have is despair.”

"Its upper torso was humanlike, but this creature was not some fairy tale sea-princess.”