💡 Writing Inspiration | 26
Excerpts
My point is: Girl makes me feel this way, like I am going to die. There are many women in the world. By last count, seven. But she is the only one I ever loved.
from I Love Girl by Simon Rich, The New Yorker
Adventure is just hardship with an inflated sense of self.
from Orange is the New Black (the TV Series)
Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder but verse is cheaper.
from Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
Words
metonymy
noun — the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing
imbroglio
noun — an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation
Fata Morgana
noun — a mirage; Italian for ‘fairy Morgan,’ originally referring to a mirage seen in the Strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily and attributed to Morgan le Fay
faute de mieux
adverb — for want of a better alternative
