Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Your lies are like a silent fart. Can't see 'em, but I can smell 'em.” — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Polish the young woman’s ego like wax on a wood floor, Shinola on shoes, spit on an apple.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green,… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on… — Jay Bylsma Copy Share Image
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation,… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“The kid poured him another straight rye and I think he doctored it with water down behind the bar because when he… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
“Maybe the siren was was a fire truck? Mercer couldn't see one anywhere, but like some bounding St. Bernard of the metaphysical,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, she emitted a loud, long fart, like air escaping a beach ball, exhaust pipe of a Model T, tire-inflating hose at… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles,… — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
“Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“show the way a comparison can be thought through. We can even go further. In the opening simile, a human person, the… — Shira Wolosky Copy Share Image
“I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
