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“You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat.”

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“The pain wasn’t tidal. That was the lesson of the dream which was really a memory. The pain only appeared to come and go. The pain was like the piling, sometimes covered and sometimes visible, but always there.”

Book:Misery

Source: Misery

“I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor.”

Simile Tana French The Secret Place Meteor

Book:The Secret Place

Source: The Secret Place

“His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.”

Love Music Simile

Book:Heir to Sevenwaters

Source: Heir to Sevenwaters

“As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well, except for that fact that boats are not generally round, orange and on fire. Hmm. Come to think of it, in no way whatsoever did the sun, in this instance, resemble a leaky boat. My apologies. That was a dreadful attempt at simile. Please allow me to try again. As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a self-luminous, gaseous sphere comprised mainly of of hydrogen and helium.”

Funny Sun Boat Sunset Simile Dusk Sink

Book:A Whole Nother Story

Source: A Whole Nother Story

“His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.”

Angels Simile Daughter Of Smoke And Bone

Author:Laini Talyor

“Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.”

Faces Hair Simile Face Character Description Personal Appearance

Book:The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain”

Metaphor Simile

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“I have two enemies in all the world, Two twins, inseparably fused: The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.”

Philosophy Politics

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.”

Humor Rhetoric Simile

Book:The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.”

Guilt Metaphor Simile Lolita Humbert Humbert

Author:Vladimir Nabokov