“I saw him running or walking through the outskirts of Gómez Palacio, under a sky that looked like a rockslide.”
-Roberto Bolaño
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“I saw him running or walking through the outskirts of Gómez Palacio, under a sky that looked like a rockslide.”
-Roberto Bolaño
“Fury flashing from her eyes like New Year’s Eve sparklers.”
-Dorothea Straus
“Her throat was full, with a mole like a tiny cameo in its hollow.”
-Eudora Welty
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use,
broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.”
-Virginia Woolf
“She emptied her mind, as if emptying a bottle, and waited for inspiration.”
-Mavis Gallant
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”
-David Foster Wallace
“Now one man has a go at the propeller, now another. But the engine is implacable, like a pupil being helped all the time, the whole class is whispering the answers to him, but no, he can’t do it, he keeps getting stuck, he keeps getting stuck at the same place, he fails.”
-Franz Kafka
“Kiwi and his father could sometimes meet at the intersection of their two angers, like neighbors drawing up to the barbed stars of a fence.”
-Karen Russell
“The first wave carried with it men accustomed to spaces and coldness and being alone, the coyote and cattlemen, with no fat on them, with faces the years had worn the flesh off, with eyes like nailheads, and hands like the material of old gloves, ready to touch anything.”
-Ray Bradbury
The Simile Museum 