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How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand of destiny had stayed so far inland, away from the busy coastlines, to alight on the people who were, of all, the most stubbornly rooted in the silt of the Ganga, in a soil that had to be sown with suffering to yield its crop of story and song? It was as if fate had thrust its fist through the living flesh of the land in order to tear away a piece of its stricken heart.


Amitav Ghosh


#girmitiya #metaphor #separation #business

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?


Amy Summers


#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #metaphor #random

People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. Not when the baby wash in crimson and squealing like it just depart heaven to come to hell, another place of red. Not when the midwife know that the mother shed too much blood, and she who don't reach fourteen birthday yet speak curse 'pon the chile and the papa, and then she drop down dead like old horse. Not when blood spurt from the skin, on spring from the axe, the cat-o'-nine, the whip, the cane and the blackjack and every day in slave life is a day that colour red. It soon come to pass when red no different from white or blue or black or nothing. Two black legs spread wide and mother mouth screaming. A black baby wiggling in blood on the floor with skin darker than midnight but the greenest eyes anybody ever done seen. I goin' call her Lilith. You an call her what they call her.


Marlon James


#blood #color #historical-fiction #metaphor #red

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions it hooks you fast and kills you hard.


Jennifer Donnelly


#metaphor #revolution

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.


Robert Smithson


#language #literal #metaphorical #operates #signification

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.


Joyce Carol Oates


#i #metaphorical #precise #say #scientists

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.


Joss Whedon


#coming-of-age-metaphore #feminism #iconic #age

unless you're the lead dog the view never changes... mercy out does justice every time: always find your way back home/


Bob Mitchley


#metaphor #poetry #change

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.


Iain M. Banks


#pain #communication

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue


Anne Lamott


#faith






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