#mile

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid. ↗

— John Green

#books #donuts #librarians #simile #kids

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#character #simile #substance #character

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#naruto #smile #trouble

Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#simile #games

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? ↗

— Mark Twain

#simile #insult

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#nearly-headless-nick #simile #insult

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#simile #witty #insult

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination. ↗