#RecognizingImpliedMeanings

[jenniferjapanblog-blog]

“Why does the disorder of a forgotten garden move me as my tended yards never did?”

The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson (352)

#recognizingimpliedmeanings

[lorraynedominicanrepublic-blog]

“Lio is just a friend.”

Julia Alvarez, In The Time Of The Butterflies, (79)

#recognizingimpliedmeanings

[sarahsweden-blog]

“Perspective can make a great deal of difference to people’s reputations.”

Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (291)

#fredrikbackman #amancalledove #swedishlit #recognizingimpliedmeanings

[mariamaafganistan]

"I wish my father had had the stomach to sharpen one of his knives and do the honorable thing."

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (6)

#afghanistan #khaledhosseini #athousandsplendidsuns #recognizingimpliedmeanings

[mrwrightsenglishclass]

'You don't work. One group claims women support you. Another group claims you're impotent.' 'No,' I said. 'I just had an accident.'

--Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (120)

#RecognizingImpliedMeanings #Euphemism

[kelvinerazo7]

“He could feel Piggy’s head against his shoulder and the convulsive grip of a hand”

(pg.166)

#recognizingimpliedmeanings

[angelaireland]

“I want your permission to do what I think is good this night. It is, I know, much to ask; and when you know what it is I propose to do you will know, and only then, how much.”

Dracula (175)

#recognizingimpliedmeanings

[keily-elsalvador1-blog]

one of the girl's rapists in now free; fourteen others are behind bars."

A History of Violence, Oscar Martinez, (119)

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[frankgreece101-blog]

“But after so many of the finest Trojan died, many Achaeans,too, though many did survive, in the war’s tenth year, Priam’s city was destroyed .”

—Homer, The Iliad, (252)

#greece #Homer #The Iliad #recognizingimpliedmeanings

[kaylafarrell]

Every streetlight was broken and out, it was a darkness that only farmers' sons had even known. And the soldiers were all around and among us. Beating and touching, strange accents in our ears. Promising revenge. All night. I stood still and straight, in a ring of bayonets and machine-guns.

Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry, (pg. 154)

#roddy doyle #A Star Called Henry #ireland #recognizingimpliedmeanings #symbolism

[tasherashaitilitblog]

“Something to get me back on track”

- Ibi Zoboi (303)

#recognizingimpliedmeaning

[jenniferjapanblog-blog]

“Fox or woman? Fox or man? The forest is very wide and paths are very narrow.”

The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson (346)

#recognizingimpliedmeanings

[lorraynedominicanrepublic-blog]

The way I emphasized sometime it was hopeless.

Julia Alvarez, How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, (92) 

#recognizingimpliedmeanings

[sarahsweden-blog]

“So there were certainly people who thought that feelings could not be judged by looking at cars. But they were wrong.”

Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (246)

#fredrikbackman #amancalledove #swedishlit #recognizingimpliedmeanings

[mariamaafganistan]

"That's no good," Khadija said. "He's so old and so..."

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (Page 48)

#khaledhosseini #afghanistan #athousandsplendidsuns #recognizingimpliedmeanings

[aliciaitaly-blog]

“The lord of the hills and all the other monsters terrified me, but I knew they didn’t exist.”

Niccolò Ammaniti: I’m Not Scared (198)

#recognizingimpliedmeaning