290 Quotes About Imagery

And in those peculiar instances where one finds oneself wishing to be heard yet unwishing for it in that same moment, the mysterious voice replied to her from the void.

The horizon was a biblical disaster.

He tells us we're having an assessment quiz and gives a boy in the front row a bunch of papers to hand out to the class. When the boy gets close to me, he hesitates, holding the sheets tentatively, like he's offering a bunny carcass to a rabid dog.

Cora works the lotion into all my cracks and crevices as the familiar medical/old-lady smell of the oily cream fills the room. My beige compression garments slump like snakeskin on my desk. After a year, they seem more me than the purply-pink swirling scars of my actual body.

A world of hot wind and bursting stars

He is a scrawny broomstick of a boy in dusky shalwar kameez with holes - filthy wild hair, bruised lips, skulking face.

It's sprang from the black woods like a mountain bird, as if that dark wall of leaves, branches, and limbs had rejected this thing and violently spat it out on the pavement.

In reply, my son, never one to be hurried, especially at his gladdest moments, moved one of his three kings, I doubt it even mattered which, and smiled down at the board where the teeth of the torn cobs spread like drawn suns.

I'd never seen anyone quite like him before. Roger's flesh was the colour of potatoes, with deep furrows running along his forehead and cheeks, as if you could grow root vegetables in the lines of his face.