“The baby’s eyes were dark, almost black, and when I nursed her in the middle of the night, she’d stare at me with a stunned, shipwrecked look as if my body were an island she’d washed up on.”
-Jenny Offil
The Simile Museum
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February 12, 2015
“So. What do you think? Are you convinced now I’m as crazy as a tulip or a taxi? As vagrant as a cloud?”
-Sandra Cisneros
February 1, 2015
“Profound was Gary’s relief the next morning as he bumped and glided, like a storm-battered yacht, into the safe harbor of his work week.”
-Jonathan Franzen
December 23, 2014
“Long fingers arched like grapple hooks.”
-William Carlos Williams
December 17, 2014
“An unsettled feeling keeps the body front and center. The wrong words enter your day like a bad egg in your mouth.”
-Claudia Rankine
December 12, 2014
“I looked at her blankly, although the truth, like a lone and flagging swimmer, was gradually making some headway in the black sea of my ignorance.
-Roberto Bolaño
December 1, 2014
“Standard, like the salmonella in a poorly cooked chicken sandwich.”
– Hamilton Nolan
November 5, 2014
“He looked as cold and thin as an icicle, but as serene as God.”
-Louisa May Alcott
October 19, 2014
“Oh how we Americans gnash our teeth in bitter anger when we discover that the riveting truth that also played like a Sunday matinee was actually just a Sunday matinee.”
– David Shields
October 14, 2014
“She was married to a spanish painter named Pichot, who was a rather wonderful creature, he was long and thin like one of those primitive Christs in spanish churches and when he did a spanish dance which he did later at the famous banquet to Rousseau, he was awe inspiringly religious.”
-Gertrude Stein
The Simile Museum 