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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Steve Martin
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
Steve Martin

Stephenie Meyer
“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

Nicholas Sparks
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein

Lemony Snicket
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
Lemony Snicket

“A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.”
Andrew Wolfe

Nicholas Sparks
“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.”
Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

Horace Mann
“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
Horace Mann

Patricia Briggs
“Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”
Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

Frank Zappa
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
Frank Zappa

Richelle Mead
“And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.”
Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

Rick Riordan
“I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.”
Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

Terry Pratchett
“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.”
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Cassandra Clare
“He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

Suzanne Collins
“Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.”
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

John Green
“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
John Green, Paper Towns

Abraham Lincoln
“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

J.K. Rowling
“Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Thomas Paine
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

Jarod Kintz
“The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.”
Jarod Kintz

Lemony Snicket
“Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.”
Lemony Snicket

Jodi Picoult
“Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.”
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

John Green
“Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
John Green

Simone Elkeles
“Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.”
Simone Elkeles

Mark Twain
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain

Rachel Hill
“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.”
Rachel Hill, A Girls Guide to Guys: Meeting Them, Managing Them and All That Love Stuff

Lemony Snicket
“Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.”
Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

Rick Riordan
“The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.”
Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse

Cassandra Clare
“He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

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