343 Quotes About Simile

The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.

You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.

I was wary of my sister's cooking, which invariably consisted of a tubular pasta and economy cheese, charred black on the surface, with either tinned tuna or lardy mince lurking beneath the molten crust ... So that evening, in a tiny flat in Tooting, I was pushed into the tiny kitchen where sixteen people sat crammed around a tiny trestle table designed for pasting wallpaper, one of my sister's notorious pasta bakes smouldering in its centre like a meteorite, smelling of toasted cat food.

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

The sky wraps us in a chilled blanket of milky stars.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

And then it happens. He smiles. And his whole face unfastens like a window blowing open into the breeze, letting in the fresh air and sunshine.

Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...like a thorn in every one of your fingers, and a string around your heart...and one fees it always. Nagging. Nagging.