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Chris Shockley
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‘There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.’
“If Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.”
― Company
― Company
“Two mountains in Greece, you see: Virgil refers to piling Pelion upon Ossa as a metaphor for adding one very large thing to another—going too far, in other words.”
― The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
― The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
“Baked dough—one of the great smells…He stopped himself; that was the sort of pronouncement that Chloe made, and he must avoid becoming like her, or he would end up making sweeping statements about Russians, just as she did.”
― The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
― The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
“Annabelle finished the explanation. “It’s just that they take some time to happen. That’s the difference.”
― The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
― The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
“To bury the grape tendril in such a way that it shoots out new growth I recognize easily as a metaphor for the way life must change from time to time if we are to go forward in our thinking.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun
― Under the Tuscan Sun
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