#simile

The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle. ↗

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#faith

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simile

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. ↗

— Lord Thomas Dewar

#simile #simile

Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#today

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #simile #humor

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty. ↗

— Andrew Wolfe

#inspirational #love #simile #truth #inspirational

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. ↗

— Leslie What

#hermit #literature #simile #wilderness #funny

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. ↗