“But the young woman hasn’t exactly entered, she’s drifted down like a dead leaf, and the lowest depth is behind the door that has Ladies on it, the large, tiled room, with four doors to the right and four doors to the left.”
-Jenny Erpenbeck
The Simile Museum
Category: Simile
June 8, 2015
“Oliver might have guessed at other reasons; he had felt too happy to look for them. Like a driver who has found a shortcut on his daily route, like a soldier who has won an objective without bloodshed, like a writer who has made his point thriftily, he drew happiness from his own efficacy.”
-Harry Matthews
March 1, 2015
“They hold each other. Julie is very white, her hair prickly-short. The room’s darkness is pocked with little bits of Los Angeles, at night, through glass. The dark drifts down around them and fits like a gardener’s glove.”
-David Foster Wallace
February 17, 2015
“She smiled at him like they were about to rob a bank together.”
-Rachel Kushner
The Simile Museum 