Metaphors


Metaphors We Live By
The Neverending Story
Animal Farm
You're Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore (Ways to Say It)
The Little Prince
Siddhartha
Paper Towns
The Alchemist
East of Eden
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner's Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Little Fires Everywhere
Ash Princess (Ash Princess Trilogy, #1)
I Talk Like a River
I Am Every Good Thing
Shatter Me by Tahereh MafiDaughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini TaylorLips Touch by Laini TaylorBlackbringer by Laini TaylorOnce Upon a Road Trip by Angela N. Blount
Most Beautifully-Written YA Books
68 books — 61 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyParadox Lost by V.R. Ling
SFF: Best Themes
32 books — 26 voters

Cassandra Clare
“ Thomas was frowning. “My aunt Tatiana is mad. My father has often said so, that his sister was driven to madness by what happened to her father and her husband. She blames our parents for their deaths.” “But James has never done anything to her,” said Christopher, his eyebrows knitting together. “He’s a Herondale,” said Thomas. “That’s enough.” “That’s ridiculous,” Christopher said. “It is as if one was bitten by a duck and years later one shot a completely different duck and ate it for dinner, ...more ”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

Milan Kundera
“ Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. ”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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