Metaphors


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Metaphors We Live By
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
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin1984 by George OrwellSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyStories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
SFF: Best Themes
20 books — 13 voters
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Most Beautifully-Written YA Books
67 books — 60 voters

Fernando Pessoa
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows... I've written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently (imposs ...more
Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of Disquiet

John Connolly
Know a man by his metaphors.
John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter

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