“She didn’t call my name. It was all of a morning. But we sat like she was the road that returned drivers to the city and I was the road that sent them to the countryside.”
-Renee Gladman
The Simile Museum
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December 13, 2016
“The air was muggy, swollen as a bruise. They were the only customers at the only table, and the only staff his cousin’s at the only table, and the only staff his cousin’s daughter, Little Treasure. She brought out platter after platter, refilled pots of jasmine tea, and a bottle of rice wine that Old Wu declined. She hovered, simpering and smiling like a courtesan.”
-Vanessa Hua
December 6, 2016
“Solitude wrapped him like a cloak.”
-Francine du Plessix Gray
December 1, 2016
“Paper cups floated in the foamy brown lake serene as swans.”
-Lucia Berlin
November 23, 2016
“Annika was speaking very fast and had apparently decided that the best strategy was to treat Willem like an eclipse and simply not look at him at all.”
-Hanya Yanagihara
November 16, 2016
“Only the animals are seasoned owners.
The lakes belong to frogs with broken voices.
Farms are inhabited by rabbits.
A fox barks like a landlord down the dark.”
-Alastair Reid
November 11, 2016
“Rough channels of water meandered out in a maze through a forest of reeds on the canal side, and islands, oases of wind-contorted trees, appeared in the distance like sudden revelations.”
-Jeff Vandermeer
November 6, 2016
“Generous gestures, when she attempts them, seem to swipe through the lives of others like a random bear paw, often making matters worse. And she finds no momentum in sharing, in benevolence, in charity, no interaction with another person ever brought her a bolt of pure aliveness like entering the water on a still morning with the world empty in every direction to the sky. That first entry. Crossing the border of consciousness into, into what?”
-Anne Carson
October 29, 2016
“A black mustache like the lowered wings of a crow.”
-Carolyn Chute
October 21, 2016
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
-E.L. Doctorow
The Simile Museum 