Notice also that in the above sentence I put the period after the quotation mark since the quotation is only a part of the whole sentence and comes at the end. That is a rule of punctuation infrequently, but correctly, used.
True Story: A middle school teacher laughingly told the story of one of her students who was earnestly trying to follow her instruction to use colorful vocabulary in his descriptive writing. The little fellow described an autumn scene and the "hemorrhoids of leaves". LOL