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“Marcos recognizes Angela's eyes, holding the urgency and fear of a hunted animal right before it gets put out of its misery, before the boom, before it all goes dark.”

Fear Metaphor Vulnerability Animalism

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Every creek, spring, grove, hill, and ridge had a story. In these stories, the boundary between the living and dead became thin if not completely transparent. Angela began to understand why people in Julia's family rarely moved away. The family's lives and the land were bound to each other as if they were the same body.”

Home Land Metaphor Boundaries

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“As an only child, Angela nurtured her parents, as if they were static fixtures in the house requiring regular maintenance.”

Care Metaphor Parents Nurturing

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Angela mentally extracts herself from the scene by imagining bits of herself aloft and floating, dandelion seeds in outer space. Here, pain and consequences are in the world beyond her, and the world beyond her is a marble within which she is but a fleck inside a fleck inside a fleck inside a fleck.”

Pain Metaphor Consequences Avoidance

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Just the thought of him gave her a feeling she had not experienced she she was a tiny girl who believed in Santa, each hour of December passing through a tunnel of strained, anticipatory patience.”

Metaphor Infatuation

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Talking to anyone but him was like trying to speak with a mouthful of molasses, and Angela realized her whole life had been molasses.”

Metaphor Infatuation

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“As their saltwater tears combined with the sea, Lewis finally understood the log line of their love story: He was an aimless kite in search of a string to ground him to the world, but instead, he'd found Wren, a great, strong wind who supported his exploration of the sky.”

Love Romance Wind Metaphor Anchors Kites String

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Lewis's mutation was like the weather; they could prepare, but they could not control a thing.”

Metaphor Weather Mutation

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“And then, like soft rain on a hot day: the sudden relief of prophetic understanding. Wren could do for Lewis what she was too young and resourceless to do for her mother. Plenty of smart people denied the existence of free will, but perhaps the stakes were not as high for them.”

Metaphor Free Will Prophecy

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Moments when he was no longer their teacher but an imperfect man who had just apprehended a flash of enlightenment in the fourth row of the high school auditorium; moments when he was no longer a human becoming a shark, in fact: no longer a body at all but a celestial object, simultaneously born and dying from an overwhelm of love and goodness.”

Transformation Metaphor Celestial Body

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Without eyelids, he seemed to stare right through her when he slept, like a figure in a painting whose gaze follows you no matter where you orient yourself in the room.”

Horror Metaphor Following

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Angela lay faceup on the hot green concrete, pretending her body was a melting Popsicle. As she started to sweat, she imagined all the ugly parts of herself dripping away, leaving only her dream self, whom she deeply, truly, always wanted to be.”

Metaphor Self Image

Author:Emily Habeck

“The thought of her parents once evoked an involuntary ache in her chest, but now she experienced a new uncaring neutrality. Angela's future felt so full, and her parents existed another life ago, ghosts relieved from the duty of haunting.”

Metaphor Parents Ghosts Strained Relationships

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart