“He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.”
Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.”
— Eudora Welty, book Delta Wedding
Source: Delta Wedding
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Variant: Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.
Source: Remembrance Rock
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Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry
Valentine, from Mean Time (1993).
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Source: The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
