“You live for pretentious metaphors.”
“Pretentious.""So? I love pretentious people!""Why?""They try so hard to be interesting, you don't have to do any work.”
“Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.”
“It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. And it feels like being born”
“I myself prefer being called Cassie. It's so much friendlier and less pretentious than Cassandra, don't you think? ... I think both fit you right fine. One is elegant and graceful, the other fun and lively.”
“What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?”