122 Quotes About Metaphors

You know, Lucia,” Avani said as we came to the intersection of Jordan street and Barkstone, “I feel our sun slipping away with each passing day. I hope it doesn't fade.

Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual blanket of water pulled back by a celestial hand.

Predictions are but guesses - when they come true, they are prophecies; when they don't, we salvage the situation by calling them allegories.

...and yet there was one lump in that freshly raked zen garden: a small woman crying into a fish bowl.

A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

He is capable of turning everything into anything--snow into skin, skin into blossoms, blossoms into sugar, sugar into powder, and powder back into little drifts of snow--for all that matters to him, apparently, is to make things into what they are not, which is doubtless proof that he cannot stand being anywhere for long, wherever he happens to be.

She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow that sometimes persists after a light has gone out.

Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.