Double Meanings Quotes

“With the music of our singing in the background, I looked at the church candles and thought about the surreal connection between images and memory. The peaceful and joyous candles flickering there during the Christmas ceremony projected warmth, comfort, and familiarity – even though thy emitted the same kind of fiery energy as the flames caused by the war.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

“So what you're saying [...] is that the translator has a lot of decisions to make. That there are multiple meanings to be found in any word, in any sentence. In any situation.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“How could I forget that every truth meant at least two things, that slogans were empty suits draped on the corpse of an idea?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“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