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
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
67 books — 60 voters

Gregory P.  Smith
I reckon anger is the cigarette smoking of emotions. It's toxic, self-destructive, offensive, socially unacceptable, and harmful to others; it costs a lot and always leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It's also a mongrel to try to quit. ...more
Gregory P. Smith, Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent

Victoria Chang
They are not wisdom or freedom or history. They are not what’s lost. They are nothing but wild geese. I can hear them everywhere, wings pushing down metaphor.
Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything

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