Metaphor Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.”

— Roxane Gay

“Only now did he realize how poor a substitute his hand had been for a real woman with all of her smells and sounds…

— Cari Quinn

“What kind of people?" The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark and the…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were pure --…

— Laura Wiess

“I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“She would not admit she was making a mess. Unfazed by bacon already shriveled and coffee stone-cold, she poured her mixings onto a grill…

— Truman Capote

“He remembered that right after that, he had stolen a loaf of bread from a delicatessen counter and had taken it home and devoured…

— Patricia Highsmith

“All around him people were eating their unfood wih, if not actual evidence of enjoyment, then with no more actual disgust than was to…

— Terry Pratchett

“He could feel it, almost taste it on the night air. He could taste it, a sooty hot taste that came from everywhere, as…

— Stephen King

“None of that 'Oh, I'm not hungry; I'll just have a salad' crap so many woman pulled, as if he'd think they were less…

— Jackie Barbosa