Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green Copy Share Image
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing… — Catherine Coulter Copy Share Image
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Tourists hurried past them on the pedestrian-only street like chickens scampering to the feeder, cars scurrying through a tollgate, Niagara River rushing… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Fluorescent lights on the ceiling lit up the white Formica top of her desk like an operating table, white-sand beach at high… — Dennis Vickers 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful difference between the two… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well,… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.” — Dennis Vickers 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
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Hung in the air like fart gas in an elevator, insecurity in a prom ballroom, guilt around a police lineup.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
