Simile Quotes

“I lay awake for a long time. It was like sitting in a cinema after the lights go down, waiting for the previews to begin. But nothing was happening. I regretted the coffee.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Squeak sq-squeak sq-squeak: fifty tennis shoes jumping and skipping against the waxed wood floor. Dodgeball. Perfect. It smells like the armpits of Satan in here.”
― James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

“The beaches were overrun with jellyfish these days, the monstrous red stinging kind that that looked like wounds along the shoreline.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“The flock of birds always living in her chest these days had been startled. They flund themselves against the confines of her ribs, beating and flapping in a frenzy inside of her.”
― Kiersten White, The Camelot Betrayal

“I got that same glorious hit of ecstasy, like the opposite of getting hit in the face with a frying pan.”
― Alexander Wales, Book I

“Like flocks of small dark birds,
hidden parts of the self weep”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

“But what captured him was a light in the river
folding open and open
blood, heart and stones
shimmering like the Milky Way.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

“Like an apologetic banana”
― Angie Sage, Syren

“Etty saw Rowan, daughter of Robin Hood, lifting her green kirtle, her brown braid lashing like a wildcat's tail as she tried to run.”
― Nancy Springer, Outlaw Princess of Sherwood

“Her words flew like butterflies through the vibrant air of the hall; and the company was quiet, as if watching them.”
― Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

“You’re like the moon waxing into sight.”
― S. Escobar, A Song Beyond Walls

“There's mountain snow. And polar snow. And ski-snow, and deep snow, and snow in flutters like tiny moths, and snow in flurries like moths in a hurry, and snow in flakes like someone (it?) is grating the sky.

And show sharp as insect bites and snow as soft as lather and wet snow that doesn't stick and dry snow that does, and wraps the world like an installation to the point in the night where you wake up and the sound is gone, to the point in the night where you turn deeper into the bed, to the point in the night where there's snow in your sleep and your sleep is deep as snow.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

“He shrugged. 'If we keep pulling threads, trying to see which ones make the pattern, we unravel the cloth and left with nothing but tangles. Let's have no more talk of debts.' He cocked his head and studied my ash-smeared hair and face. 'On second thought, you do owe me the tale of how you contrived my rescue. May Lugh give me the art to do it justice!”
― Esther M. Friesner, Deception's Princess

“Doubts are like swallows. They follow each other and swarm together.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“At one extreme...the hours seemed to aggregate and sell like a wave, swallowing huge chunks of her day. At the other extreme when her attention was disengaged and fractured she experienced time at its most granular wherein moments hung around like particles diffused and suspended and standing in water. There used to be a middle way, too, when her attention was focussed but vast and time felt like a limpid pool ringed by sunlit ferns.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“Red flashes of light leaped in front of her eyes like ballet dancers.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“My father says that fires are only dangerous if they get bored. Left alone they get frustrated and resort to evil. Best way to keep a fire happy is to let it lick food and hear stories”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth

“Memories are a form of simile: when we say something is 'like' we are remembering.”
― Graham Greene, In Search of a Character

“her lower lip
was like an orange
mint. and
i was a crying
little boy
in the candy store.”
― Ron Padgett

“His eyes look like pieces of a broken plate.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“It was a marvellous morning, clear as a mirror, warm as the promise of love, bright as heaven.”
― Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kappillan of Malta

“he had nothing to give, except maybe Mein Kampf, and there was no way he'd give such propaganda to a young German girl. That would be like the lamb handing a knife to the butcher.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“He wanted to open her up like a new WalMart.”
― Susan Donovan, Take a Chance on Me

“Our external tubular heating system, painted in garish primary colors, looked like a poor man's Pompidou.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“Nature was as strongly
bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in”
― Charles Dickens

“The solid, contour less body, like a block of granite and the rasping red skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose hip to the rose. Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A crescendo / pushing over the surface / for birth / & utterance / for red / to scatter over fields / like diphthongs / preserved with symphony notes / for earth.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“Maybe it was the hormones, maybe it was her own natural sense of pride, Aja wasn't sure what it was, but her anger suddenly rolled up inside of her like a special effect from one of the Harry Potter movies and spilled out" (310).”
― Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

“The headache was a result of being drugged. And then the other horror hit him like a slap to the face, and he involuntarily gasped. He was in avian, driving away from their hotel. Kovac had given him only enough narcotic to make him compliant, like a drunk who needs to be led away from a party.”
― Clive Cussler, Plague Ship

“The headache was a result of being drugged. And then the other horror hit him like a slap to the face, and he involuntarily gasped. He was in a van, driving away from their hotel. Kovac had given him only enough narcotic to make him compliant, like a drunk who needs to be led away from a party.”
― Clive Cussler, Plague Ship