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#metaphor

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The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.


Jack Heath


#money

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.


Vera Nazarian


#classical #classical-music #folk #folk-music #genre

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.


Ashly Lorenzana


#depression #despair #hopelessness #leaves #metaphor

Abaddon opened his mouth to continue, but Lucifer waved his hand and a gag appeared over the lesser demon's mouth. "So, you really think that the awful world that the humans have built for themselves would have been better without me? May I remind you that Revelation shows that while me and all of my followers are confined in the eternal abyss, the Almighty has shown himself to the world and proven his existence, and everyone knows for a fact that Jesus died for them, the humans will still hate the Almighty and gladly flock to my banner when I am released. So, Abaddon, look into my eyes and tell me that the awful things of the world wouldn't have happened without me." Abaddon looked into the Demon Lord's eyes and couldn't say it, but that was mostly because of the gag.


Kenneth Evers


#gag #human-nature #humans #insanity #lies

Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making sure your kid doesn't know he's fake that you can't tell when you're supposed to stop." "Mom, I found you and Calla wrapping my presents when I was, like, six." "It was a metaphor, Blue." "A metaphor's supposed to clarify by providing an example. That didn't clarify." "Do you know what I mean or not?" "What you mean is that you're sorry you didn't tell me about Butternut." Maura glowered at the door as if Calla stood behind it. "I wish you wouldn't call him that." "If you'd been the one to tell me about him, then I wouldn't be using what Calla told me." "Fair enough.


Maggie Stiefvater


#butternut #lol #maura #raven-boys #santa-claus

Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.


Neal Shusterman


#metaphor #perfect #perfectionism #simile #suspicion

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain


Zora Neale Hurston


#simile #simile

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.


M. H. Abrams


#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.


Diane Ackerman


#emotions #language #lie #metaphorically #moods

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.


Mary Catherine Bateson


#changing #disappearing #family #look #metaphors






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