Look who's calling the cauldron black."
"Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right."
"That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He stared off into space, blinking. "One of those things that’s symbolic of another thing. But isn’t the same thing. Just like it."
"You mean a metaphor?"
"No! It’s like a story...like...a proverb! That’s it."
"I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a proverb. Maybe it was an analogy."
"I don’t think so.
— Richelle Mead
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