Quote by Barbara Kingsolver Download Open image ““I had hoped for a pinch of metaphor.”” — Barbara Kingsolver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“The best metaphors are a bit magical. They conjure connections that weren’t there in our minds before,” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“I made plans out of hope, expectation, desire, and duct tape, and I broke those plans with my bare hands.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? ” — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
