818 Quotes About Metaphor

The horizon changes but the sun does not.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

The flirty old moon eased his way across the warped and sooty floorboards and kissed my bare toes, turning my feet as luminous as the skin of cinema stars.

He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

The victim of encapsulating violence carries both the real fear and the memory of fear with her always. Together, they wash over her like an ocean, and if she does not learn to swim in that terrible sea, she goes under.

When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin.

Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.