Simile Quotes
104 quotes
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
"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."
"The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt."
"Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical."
"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."
"A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise."
"Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit."
"I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion. I look at him and I start aching so deep inside it takes all I can to think, to breathe, to speak. He’s like the brightest flame and it takes everything in me to resist its call.I know that if I give in, I’ll get burned so deeply, there might be nothing left once I come out the other side.But, god, I want to step into that flame."
"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."
"Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon."
"Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than another;the earth moans with metaphors."
"To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'."
"It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext."
"It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both."
"There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want."
"We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun."
"Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share."
"He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding."
"That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a hyperlink. I pressed on one, wanting answers, and it took me to another. I could never get to the meaning at the bottom of any of the bits. When I reached for the petals of the roses, I was touching a metal seatbelt buckle in a coach, driving by night through a remote place, with a band of mist running parallel to the glass I leant against."
"Night-time is being 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."
"The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock."
"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."
"Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag."
"Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start."
"Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head."
"Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite."
"717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!"
"His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body."
"T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings."
"How humid the heart, its messy rooms! We eat spicy food, sweat like wood and smolder like the coal mine that caught fire decades ago, yet still smokes more than my great-uncle who will not quit- or go out-"
"You are nothing like my father. And like my father you are nothing."
"My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you put the things you don't have anywhere else to put, and I knew that the mind and body are connected, and that my bodily sensations were just messages from my mind, but I just wished there was a box or a drawer or a hole in the ground where I could put all this, all this mind and body stuff that I didn't know what else to do with."
"[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]"
"No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing."
"Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it."
"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."
"She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean."
"The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night."
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."
"The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog."
"The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven."
"The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them."
"Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest."
"And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.Having a ghost boyfriend WASweird"
"Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to."
"Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood."
Brandon Andress, And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime
"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."
John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
"A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one."
"His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile."
"Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful difference between the two would come to seem like a tiny neighborhood where you couldn't decide which house was yours. Which felt important when you were high above, you thought, in the foothills, but not so much at the truer remove of a continent, where the lives you'd lived and the places you'd come from, dwindled to a single point on the horizon, in the incorrigibly distant past."
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