Double Meaning Quotes

“I thought about the word 'profile' and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we're looking at a person's profile online, or say a newspaper is writing a profile on someone, and we assume it's the whole them we're seeing. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you're only seeing half the face... It's never the way you would remember seeing them. You never remember someone 'in profile.' You remember them looking you in the eye, or talking to you. You remember an image that the subject could never see in a mirror, because you are the mirror. A profile, photographically, is perpendicular to the person you know.”
― David Levithan, Every You, Every Me

“You’re terrible at this whole ‘tell me whatever I want to know’ thing.” My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don’t pick it up.

He sighs. “Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don’t you want to see it?” He raises his brows.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If someone says to you, “you’re a sight for sore eyes”—make sure it’s a compliment.”
― Clifford Cohen

“There he died; and as thou seest me, saw
I the three fall one by one, between the fifth
day and the sixth: whence I betook me,
already blind, to groping over each, and for
three days called them, after they were dead;
then fasting had more power than grief.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“I write between the lines but then I write only one line.”
― Amit Abraham

“Some people get sarcasm, and others do not. Poor them.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Maybe when you were old, you didn’t care so much about your own teeth, just other people’s.”
― Kody Keplinger

“No Throat So Deep by Stewart Stafford

“I'd like you to meet Mrs Koch-Gobbelaar,”
I weighed up the overture long and hard,
"I'm licking my lips without drool!" I replied,
“Amazeballs!” he said, “Tonight, you'll meet.”

We came early, but she didn’t take umbrage,
“Spread out all over my ballroom,” she said,
She told us how the rooms were hanging,
Up the elevator shaft to the top floor and left.

Mrs Koch-Gobbelaar made vegetarian claims,
But we found her smuggled stash of beef jerky,
Her ex-husband split and became a eunuch,
He died bone-tired with limp alibis on his urn.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Snow landet immer oben.”
― Suzanne Collins

“He liked to dance across a line, but he had no intention of crossing it.”
― Jane Washington, Plier

“Kilian: I’m with Theo on this one. Why is Gabriel calling you a puppy?

Isobel: He told me to come and I came.

Kilian: …

Isobel: What?

Kilian: …

Isobel: Seriously? What?”
― Jane Washington, Tourner

“I am a wilted flower. The rain didn’t come. I dried out.”
― Wiktoria Hankus

“I am a wilted flower. The rain didn’t come. I dried out.”
― Wiktoria Hankus, Notes From A Teenage Girls Bedroom

“Sometimes those fleas get to a woman," he told her as his hand warmed her flesh. "She gets an itch that nobody but a man can scratch”
― Pamela Morsi, Garters