"What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future."
- Jeanette Winterson
"for those memories are nowjust like these little kittensI hold in my handsthose can be kissedand treasuredbut not held too tightly."
- Sanober Khan
"I killed it," Athan lamented. "I am a fool." His righteous anger, his arguments, his adoration for the being who claimed Eldaloth's name faded and disintegrated with all the suffering life behind him...."
- Brian K. Fuller
"Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster."
- Nick Harkaway
"If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he’d go with the sunshine."
- Meredith Marple
"Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach."
- Rachel Hartman
"Sure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as in 28 Days. Or racial politics or fear of contagion or even the consumer unc..."
- Scott Westerfeld
"The match I struck shall not run deadYou’re my first inhale, my last cigarette."
- Mie Hansson
"You touched my heart...ever so softlyand I realizedtears had never been...merely saltand the rainOh the Rain!had never been merely water."
"Plenty of things in the universe are old, my dear. That's like saying Florida is a metaphor for hell because they're both hot - though your grandfather would agree wholeheartedly with that, I suppose."
- Sammy Nickalls