290 Quotes About Imagery

All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses. It was the flutter of moth wings on glass and the promise of river nymphs in the dappled creek beds. It was the smell of oak trees on the summer evening she fell in love, and the way dawn threw itself across the cow pond and turned the water to light.

It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.

But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.

...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...

Our interactions were confined to a nod as I settled down into my seat. A few days into our routine and we were like an old married couple--we'd just missed out the honeymoon and skipped straight from flirtation to habit." from "First Impressions

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...

The stars have come to the earth, and the ocean has turned over the ground; dark waves meet the sky.