Simile Quotes

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

~ Elena Ferrante

717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!

~ Laline Paull

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.

~ Juliet Marillier

It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from constellations. She used chimes now and then, the chimes that characterized every patio in Arizona, the piano, the trees combed by wind. A prelude to a storm. It was like discovering the secret room in a dream of your house that holds all the magic. It was music I wished I lived inside. Around us, cactus, hills filled with jumping cholla, the heat of August like another animal heaving over us.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.

~ Charles De Lint

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-

~ Kevin Young

You are nothing like my father. And like my father you are nothing.

~ Eduardo C. Corral

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.

~ Catherine Lacey

[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

~ Jonathan Franzen

No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing.

~ Ilias Oumarri

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.

~ Dennis Vickers

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.

~ Catherine Coulter

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.

~ Sara Sheridan

The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.

~ Stephen Moles

They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

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.

~ Dexter Palmer

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.

~ Fridik Erlings

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.

~ Jasper Fforde

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.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest.

~ Oktay Rifat

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the mother never gets angry, it is safe to say that that is the unloving mother.

~ Criss Jami

And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.Having a ghost boyfriend WASweird

~ Lisa Schroeder

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

~ Catherine Lacey

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

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

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.

~ Phoebe Stone

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.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.

~ Matthew De Abaitua

My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger.

~ Emily Murdoch

He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition.

~ Haruki Murakami

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

~ Jay M. Bylsma

You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.

~ Kristina Adams

I was wary of my sister's cooking, which invariably consisted of a tubular pasta and economy cheese, charred black on the surface, with either tinned tuna or lardy mince lurking beneath the molten crust ... So that evening, in a tiny flat in Tooting, I was pushed into the tiny kitchen where sixteen people sat crammed around a tiny trestle table designed for pasting wallpaper, one of my sister's notorious pasta bakes smouldering in its centre like a meteorite, smelling of toasted cat food.

~ David Nicholls

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

~ Carl Hiaasen

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

~ Rivka Galchen

She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white, with windows looking out onto impenetrable forest.

~ Alexandra Kleeman

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

~ Thiruvalluvar