#simile

Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed buds like white candles in its green hands. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#personification #similes #simile

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all. ↗

— Catherine Coulter

#men #sex #simile #telephones #men

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#inspirational #love #simile #tree #trust

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey. ↗

— Andy Zaltzman

#simile

Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast ↗

— Karen Foxlee

#beauty

His skin radiates so much of the day's heat that touching him feels like wading into the lake, opening my hand, and catching one of the white shimmers of blistering afternoon sunlight bouncing across the water. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#destroy-me #simile #warner #beauty

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain. ↗

— Will Christopher Baer

#simile #life

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

#embassytown #language #lies-that-speak-truth #metaphors #similes

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#simile #strikes #washington-post #anxiety