"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."

Metaphor, Darkness, Power, Fear, Control

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"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Food, Faith, Dance, Dream

"The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?"

Marty Rubin, American Author

Metaphor, Nature, Dream, Fire, Imagination

"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Car, Journey, Life, Attention

"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."

Marie Lu, American Author

Metaphor, Darkness, Power, Fear, Control

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Life, Growth, Struggle

"When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."

Rumi, Persian Poet

Metaphor, Wisdom, Perception, Change, Truth

"It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone's will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt-as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Metaphor, Love, Death, Power, Comparison

"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things."

J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer

Metaphor, Metaphors, Problems, Television, Thinking

"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Metaphor, World, Values

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"I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele's expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. "They may have a hard time finding me, I reply.Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. "Do not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty, he says."

Psychology

"Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools."

Relationship

"My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up. Any barrier I might've succeeded in putting up around myself, any resistance I might've built up against my feelings for her, is now completely gone. Shattered."

Relationship

"My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end."

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"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."

"The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?"

"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

"When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."

"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things."

"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush."

Explore more quotes by Marie Lu

"Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools."

"My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up. Any barrier I might've succeeded in putting up around myself, any resistance I might've built up against my feelings for her, is now completely gone. Shattered."

"My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end."

"The fire in you burns as fiercely as it did when I first met you."

"Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful."

"Fear is your sword."

"If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive."

"He loved you."

"Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year."