“Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift on it. His body was a city and his mind a citadel. All communications between the two seemed to have been cut, but within the keep that was his mind he still had power. The part of his consciousness that was telling him the pain did not hurt, and that all things were like other things, was like...like...he found it hard to think of a comparison. A magic mirror, maybe.”
Source: Use Of Weapons
“Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops, have flexibility of youth, and sway more than larger adults at the bottom. They are more vulnerable to the elements, and are put to the test of survival by life's strong winds, rain, freezing cold, and hot sun. Constantly challenged. As they mature, they journey down the tree, strengthening the family unit until one day they have become big hefty branches. In the stillness below, having weathered the seasons, they now relax in their old age, no longer subject to the stress from above. It's always warmer and more enclosed at the base of the tree. The members remain protected and strong as they bear the weight and give support to the entire tree. They have the endurance.”
Source: Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
“Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“By now, we're all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world's metaphors. The zombies are our anxieties. The vampires are our greed. Our fairies are hope. Our werewolves are … what again? Something”
“I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.”
Source: On Being a Rat and Other Observations
“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.”
Source: The Four Stages of Cruelty
“Bil ki Cafer, ben geleceği görüyorum diyen, her zulmü kendisine hak görecektir.!”
Source: Sultan Selahaddin El Kürdi
“The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes,” he explained, my eyes still focused down the ravine, “It moves silently, only a mere trickle to entertain itself as it causes a massive gash in the world. This, Zack, is true power.”
Source: Soulfire
“Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.”
Source: St. Anne's Day
“Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom”
Source: The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013