Similes Quotes

The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.

Raymond Chandler

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.

D.L. Hess

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.You have never spoken before.

China Miéville

The sky seemed abruptly to have had enough of my dithering and dramatically lightened up around the glowing moon, which retreated like an aging sovereign before the rising sun.

Mary Ellen Hannibal

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Madeline Miller

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Charles Dickens

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.