#simile

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#geography #literary-london #london #metropolis #similes

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

— Cassandra Clare

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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

He's like a drug for you, Bella. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#romance #simile #romance

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

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #music #simile #song #life

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#beauty #similes #beauty

Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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