“Right now I felt like a person learning that a surgeon had left a pair of scissors inside her during a operation.” DescriptionSimileAlexandra Kleeman Book:You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Source: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“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.” HappySimileDescriptiveAlexandra KleemanIntimations Book:Intimations: Stories Source: Intimations: Stories
“There are times when any amount of being within the world is like rubbing bare skin against sandpaper, when any form of motion is a kind of abrasion, leaving you raw and pink and vulnerable to the next thing. At these times I prefer to close my eyes and be still, still like the cups or candles or crackers on the table, nerveless and open. I closed my eyes and tried to think of the thing furthest from my situation.” SimileDescriptiveAlexandra KleemanIntimations Book:Intimations: Stories Source: Intimations: Stories