[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you. " [Sookie:] "Like a fungus?
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
I collect spores, molds, and fungus
Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.
Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.
