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“When you become enthusiastic about excellence, you also transform yourself and prepare for success.”

Book:The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success

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“[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.' His eyebrows furrowed in confusion. 'You're a few colors shy of a rainbow?' she offered. 'Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam and no beer? Your cheese slid off the cracker? You couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel?' [Nicodemus] 'All right. I get it.”

Humor Metaphor Stupidity Insults

Book:Spellbound

Source: Spellbound

“METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.”

Metaphor

Book:Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Source: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

“The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied.”

Metaphor

Book:Art and Lies

Source: Art and Lies

“With my white friends, I’m always half Mexican. They never say I’m half Irish. Never say I’m half white. Like I’m tainted halfway from the standard. It’s like when I was a kid and I thought vanilla ice cream meant no flavor, like it was the base of all of the flavors. But vanilla is a bean. Like chocolate is a bean. Like cinnamon is a root. All roots and beans. All flavors. There is no base. No ice cream without a flavor.”

White Race Racism Metaphor Mexican Hispanic Bill Konigsberg The Music Of What Happens

Book:The Music of What Happens

Source: The Music of What Happens

“She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.”

Humor Voice Comedy Gun Metaphor Dogs Weird Husky

Author:Patrick Major Dallas OR

“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God." "It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor." "Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.”

Life Water Metaphor Malapropism

Book:Waltzing the Cat

Source: Waltzing the Cat

“There’s so much earth everywhere. It’s like all the people migrated to these pockets of lights and noise, and they left all these miles and miles of nature completely untouched.”

Nature Metaphor

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“If you're good at this job, and I am, then every step in a murder case moves you in one direction: towards order. We get thrown shards of senseless wreckage, and we piece them together until we can lift the picture out of the darkness and hold it up to the white light of day, solid, complete, clear. Under all the paperwork and the politics, this is the job; this is its cool shining heart that I love with every fiber of mine. This case was different. It was running backwards, dragging us with it on some ferocious ebb tide. Every step washed us deeper in black chaos, wrapped us tighter in tendrils of crazy and pulled us downwards.”

Murder Metaphor Investigation Detective Tana French Broken Harbor

Book:Broken Harbour

Source: Broken Harbour

“when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there”

Metaphor To Think About

Book:Who Moved My Cheese?

Source: Who Moved My Cheese?

“A Person Who Has Become Immortal by Drinking The Nectar Of Sorrow Is Never Ready To Drink The Poison Of Happiness.”

Life Lessons

Author:Yash Mohite

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