Similie Quotes

“A year ago… Eighteen months ago even but not now! Don’t you realise that this is too little too late?” She shook her head in frustration. “It’s like putting a band-aid on an amputation!”
― Natasha Anders, The Unwanted Wife

“It was like watching a boar try to take on the endless blue of the sky.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered from a shallow grave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“Our bodies are the canvas of our emotions, and most often, we let the world paint it.”
― Natasha Potter

“wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.”
― mohlalefi j motsima

“. . . with the sun sliding out of the sky like spit off a wall . . .”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

“I see the ratty dressing gown had gone; she's also wearing a pretty floral dress and her hair is shining pale as opals.”
― Kirsty Logan, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?”
― Francesca Lia Block, Violet & Claire

“Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Harrogate saw them going along Blount Avenue Sunday morning. They wore outfits all cut from the same bolt of cloth and in the church pew standing six across they looked like a strip of gaudy wallpaper cut into those linked dolls madfolk pass their time in fashioning.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Each spring, the schoolhouse was painted white as a bride, and every year the oceanic elements slowly undressed it.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“I know she has eyes like the moon. I know the faded scar that nicks her eyebrow.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“The scream cut through the jungle like a sharpened machete and brought a wave of fear crashing over the boy’s body. He had never felt terror like this before.”
― Jamie Baptie

“Paint speckled her skin like a colourful constellation of freckles.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“They had both feared as much, but the reality was worse than the fear and it settled over them like an icy blanket.”
― David Ball, China Run