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"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."

"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

"We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs."

"You are the ocean to my eyes."

"We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material."

"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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