Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

She balked, knowing his wariness of people who wanted to save trees for trees’ sake.

Ecology economics

For the first moment in a long invisible time, she actually felt she was being seen.

Ouch

Ouch

Haha

Ouch

Haha

Haha - simile metaphor

Haha - so thick he can’t think figuratively.

Nobody around here will get out of their darn pickup trucks. That ridge is probably the safest hiding place in the world.”

Haha

full righteous outrage intact.

the quicksands of stupid.

he was just parroting his father in some last-ditch attempt at manhood.

Ouch

Bear

Peanut Norwood’s

mistrust of the logging company, and possibly...

Money Tree Industries.

Haha

Suspicion was only natural.

Haha

there was no end to the amount of effort a man would put into saving himself some work.

Haha

Her life had become some kind of fairy tale, in which her family members set off one by one to meet their destiny on the High Road.

Haha

Cub made his parents hold their horses while they waited the ten minutes it took

outrageous intent,

Simile

falling off the marriage wagon,

Haha

Haha

Simile

the natural supremacy that went with a frame of six feet, four inches.

Man of Measure,

Knoxv...

Simile

“It’s not regular bugs, Mother. It’s something pretty.

Normally one of the men would have wished aloud for his rifle, but today no one did.

Dellarobia couldn’t remember a sadder-looking November.

a brief fling with c...

Simile

the world seemed drained.

Summer’s heat had never really arrived, nor the cold in its turn,

everything living now seemed to yearn for sun with the anguish of the unloved.

Simile

The world of sensible seasons had...

some ribbons of orange flagging tape dangling from the trees,

Haha

Haha

Haha

she was a sports car:

Metaphor - simile

Haha

she’d known the power of being physically admired,

the measure of her worth.

Nothing had changed except every conscious minute and a strange fire in her dreams.

gray teeth grinning through the dark trees.