As open as …
A limpid simile for being open and transparent. If only more people were like Maggie Tulliver, although it can be...
Like a wound…
A stunningly original depiction of the pink streaks of dawn resembling a sky-wound.
'... as the dawn like a wound...
As bright as …
Fermín is one of the most eccentric and believable characters in The Shadow of the Wind. He has a rollicking...
Authenticity as iron
Authenticity as something to be cherished in itself will come into its own in a world apparently awash with fake...
Plucking chickens in Australia
One of the inventive elements of Logue’s metaphors is the way he mixes up eras, blithely planting a country called...
Beware the Bartle blade
Bartle has much learning and little patience with fools or slouchers. As an example of that cutting tongue, here is...
All parts are one
A lovely comment on interconnectedness. I had fun choosing the image and hope you like its gentle irreverence.
'All parts...
Winter cometh
A metaphor to grab you, as the light and warmth of summer beats a retreat and winter advances, affront of...
Like frost and flowers
An alternative alliteration for describing people as being like chalk and cheese. Feel free to use it to inject some...
Creased with grief
May your face, and those of people you love, never be creased into grief-maps. What a vivid image of...
Bristled serpents of ivy
A perfect description of those thick cords of ivy rope that wrap themselves around trees, eventually suffocating them.
Book sales
Can't remember when I last saw such a librarian, but surely they still exist.
‘Prizes like the Pulitzer and Man...
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