Quotes About Symbolism

A king is not his crown.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

What is a king without a crown? That's a riddle, but one to which we all know the answer: no king at all.

Some people have stuffed animals," Aaron said with a shrug. "Other people have knives.

A king is not his throne nor his crown.

He shook his head without looking at her. "Did you know there are different names for different moons? This month it's going to be the Hunter's Moon, but March has the Worm Moon and the Crow Moon. May has the Milk Moon, July the Mead Moon. February has the Hunger Moon and late October the Blood Moon. Aren't they lovely names? Aren't they something, Hazel? Aren't they warning enough?

If Oak is the sunlight filtering through trees in the woods, all shifting gold and shadow, then Tiernan seems like those same woods in winter, the branches barren and cold.

Rhyia leaned over and pushed a fallen strand of his hair back over one of his ears. 'Take it.' 'You want me to have it?' he asked, just to be sure. He wondered what he'd done that was worthy of being commemorated with a present. 'I thought you could use a little nonsense,' she told him, which worried him a little.

Queen Annet sits on a throne covered in powdery white moths, each one fluttering its wings a little, giving the whole thing the effect of a moving carpet.

I am in a gown of deep forest green with crow feathers covering the shoulders and sleeves, while Cardan wears a doublet ornamented with bright beetle wings.

It was just a plate, her father kept saying to Christina. He never understood what that plate represented: Disrespect. Disregard. Contempt.

Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter.

The younger man sitting next to her, her son perhaps, who looked to be in his forties, had a bar code tattooed on the back of his tanned neck, as if he were a supermarket product.

She is in a rut. That's the problem. These sandwiches are a symbol of a life that's going nowhere.

We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

She laughed. 'Was she wine or bread to you?' 'What do you mean?' 'It's from an Amy Lowell poem we all loved in college. Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.

Libra does. Winning an intellectual point or decision, however minor, major—or in the middle—is the reason for the Libra person's very existence, symbolized by the Libra Scales, balanced in perfect harmony and justice.

The thing we are trying to say is in the language of leaves.

Humph. You have a spirit cougar

Treat mathematics as a language, not as a vocation.

We had all thought things would be quite different when we first came to France. The words Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, were painted in giant letters over the door of the building we were in.

But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow.

Según el gilipollas del jefe, de lo que se trataba era precisamente de malgastar el dinero. Una empresa que mantiene en su local una temperatura tropical en pleno enero, y ártica en agosto, alentaba a los clientes a creer que el negocio iba viento en popa. Era un signo de prosperidad, igual que estar gordo solía ser símbolo de abundancia. Antes uno se podía permitir sobrealimentarse; ahora se podía permitir sobrecalefaccionarse.

Weaponry, trips to the sun country, tiny bathing suits, For Christmas. "Nothing says Peace on Earth like guns and string bikinis.