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8b8f6ec Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. simile Nicholas Sparks
e9eef54 He's like a drug for you, Bella. romance simile Stephenie Meyer
afbe85c Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. love music simile song Nicholas Sparks
5fef1bf Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. simile John Green
fb27b63 Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. simile Terry Pratchett
92cd6eb I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red. simile Rick Riordan
67b0fec Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. nearly-headless-nick simile J.K. Rowling
b7cbd41 Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter. humor inspirational love simile tree trust Lemony Snicket
a1e2436 Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. humor simile Jodi Picoult
7e302e0 Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. simile Dan Brown
479b4de The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle. simile Rick Riordan
31d1ea5 The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. simile witty George R.R. Martin
1ae7acd I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you? metaphor secrets simile the-blind-assassin Margaret Atwood
78e26ef And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? copy cry crying despair fall howl metaphor mimic poetic rain shakespearean simile wind wit Mervyn Peake
1d86052 Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it. simile Terry Pratchett
05c2752 It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. paraphrased simile Neil Gaiman
908036b You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all. men sex simile telephones Catherine Coulter
885f151 Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine. simile Terry Pratchett
5f613e5 "You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply go away." simile Jim Butcher
f1a0399 Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come paraphrased simile Mario Puzo
fc73df0 "Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones" simile sugar-daddy texans Lisa Kleypas
00bcd5f The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams. screams simile Susanna Clarke
4e03c65 If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her on that hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below. reunion romance simile Juliet Marillier
0b540d7 And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face. Having a ghost boyfriend WAS weird simile Lisa Schroeder
1c1c8f7 A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board. jesus simile John Piper
59ced71 It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it. humour metaphor simile Raymond Chandler
55e848e Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon. She did not know what this chance event would be, what wind would drive it to her, what shore it would carry her to, whether it was a longboat or a three-decked vessel, loaded with anguish or filled with happiness up to the portholes. But each morning, when she awoke, she hoped it would arrive that day, and she would listen to every sound, spring to her feet, feel surprised that it had not come; then at sunset, always more sorrowful, she would wish the next day were already there. lydia-davis madame-bovary sad simile soul translation waiting Gustave Flaubert
9df47fd .. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile. rhetoric simile Mark Haddon (Author)
2ff0ae3 The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife. moon simile George R.R. Martin
d8fb8ae Indian summer is like a woman. opening-lines simile Grace Metalious
ddeb5db Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face. face faces hair personal-appearance simile Jeffrey Eugenides
33d9743 ...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs. simile Naguib Mahfouz
eb1d405 It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds. morning simile sky sun Cornelia Funke
d91a344 An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune. simile Naguib Mahfouz
c1440dd His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body. music simile Juliet Marillier
b2992e1 ...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator. joy simile similes worship John Piper
c278649 Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain simile Zora Neale Hurston
d8c654e [H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.] mind simile Jonathan Franzen
2433c3f ... Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing began, nothing resolved. simile Annie Proulx
0421beb The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water. simile Ernest Hemingway
46cd001 "And again and again fell the word, like the ebb of a dying sea. "Good-bye." figurative-language goodbye howards-end parting sad simile E.M. Forster
9763af9 They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake. literature simile Cormac McCarthy
a1cee09 Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable--and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach. irony life simile space David Brin
50b9207 The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. --the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers--I could now see--faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch, language margaret-atwood poetry ridiculous simile the-blind-assassin unrequited-love Margaret Atwood
5d34350 I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting, absorbed in their own concerns, had looked up out of the canvas and spoken to me. painting simile the-secret-history voyeur Donna Tartt
507f705 I can't tell you--oh I can't tell you--how awful--how sort of unlivable--everything is now--like a great black wall in front of me--Something's got to smash. change depression henry-and-cato iris-murdoch simile unbearable unlivable Iris Murdoch
389376a I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu--you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student--but somehow despite my efforts, I am never able to blend myself in entirely and remain in some respects quite distinct from my surroundings, in the same way that a green chameleon remains a distinct entity from the leaf upon which it sits, no matter how perfectly it has approximated the the subtleties of the particular shade. donna-tartt impostor simile the-secret-history Donna Tartt
c27e0b0 The strain on her face was still there, like weathered rocks under a thin mantle of snow. simile Richard K. Morgan
04542e9 Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away. day evanescent fade fog night simile spectral wound Gregory Maguire
423d62d A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was over his eyes. He looked like a failed soldier. Dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing. simile China Miéville
7d24e85 Whatever it was went through me like a rifle rag. Come dawn, me date was so hot you could have lit a sparkplug off of it. simile vernacular Tim Winton
9805743 On occasion I read Raymond Chandler although I have certain reservations about this author. Chandler, while obviously a master of his craft, makes overuse of simile, to my annoyance. raymond-chandler simile Jack Vance
92ad9d6 He was waiting, I think, for me to cross that space and take him in my arms again--waiting, as one waits at a deathbed for the miracle one dare not disbelieve, which will not happen. james-baldwin sad simile starcrossed-lovers waiting James Baldwin
ca29477 But she saw nothing in my eyes--she stared at me as though I had made a long journey on a white charger all the way to her prison house. giovanni-s-room james-baldwin knight-in-shining-armor miscommunication romantic-relationship simile James Baldwin
1d54acf The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train. silence simile train Carl Hiaasen
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