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46cd001 "And again and again fell the word, like the ebb of a dying sea. "Good-bye." figurative-language goodbye howards-end parting sad simile E.M. Forster
046c335 I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man's float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality--talk, footsteps, slamming doors--which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream. donna-tartt figurative-language the-secret-history Donna Tartt
375eb56 Your love for me does not exist in the real world. Yes, it is love, I do not deny it. But not every love has a course to run, smooth or otherwise, and this love has no course at all . . . But that is remote from love and remote from ordinary life. As real people we do not exist for each other. figurative-language impossible-love iris-murdoch love unrequited-love Iris Murdoch
575d100 Tulips were a tray of jewels. description e-m-forster figurative-language flowers howards-end metaphor tulips E.M. Forster
6a8d639 "He's a funny one," said Ida. "Here's how he sound." She pursed her lips and, expertly, imitated the red-winged blackbird's call: not the liquid piping of the wood thrush, which dipped down into the dry figurative-language nature sound Donna Tartt