“The sun floats up above the horizon, like a shimmering white blimp.”
-Margaret Atwood
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“The sun floats up above the horizon, like a shimmering white blimp.”
-Margaret Atwood
“And then laughter that was at once nervous and uncontrolled, like that of a child awake past her bedtime, running on the energy of a new hour.
-Rebecca Wolff
“All of his tenderness is like a minotaur gazing at a cow.”
-Guy Davenport
“I can’t figure out whether women were drawn straight to his eyes, bathed in a false and saline mistiness like gray oysters, or to his lips, always shut over his small and regular teeth.”
-Colette
“Nothing is ever wrapped up with such diabolical neatness as a shoebox.”
-Vladimir Nabokov
“Our mother is the sole survivor. We leave her trembling in the chapel. Where light filters through the glass belly of a saint. She sways on her knees like a nervous parakeet. Light comes through the shepherd, then through the lamb. Her glasses are huge. Her lips are drawn to a tiny slit. With her hands she pushes down the air. She chirps, but, but, but.”
-Beth Steidle
“She turned the top of the salt grinder a few time and shook the contents into her palm. The uneven crystals glittered like drugs or geode innards.”
-Rachel Zucker
“Grin like a kid caught smoking behind the barn.”
—W. P. Kinsella
“Slander, like coal, will either dirty your hand or burn it.”
-Russian Proverb
“Teeth all awry and at all angles like fence.”
-George Garrett
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