“She moved all the time, cutting up her life into bits like food for a child, stopping by once or twice a year to sleep on the couch.”
– Gabe Habash
The Simile Museum
May 28, 2017
“On the tarmac at Heathrow the plane full of people waited silently to be taken into the air. The air hostess stood in the aisle and mimed with her props as the recording played. We were strapped into our seats, a field of strangers, in a silence like the silence of a congregation while the liturgy is read.”
-Rachel Cusk
May 17, 2017
“I remember that sentence driving at me in the dark like a glacier.”
-Anne Carson
May 8, 2017
“He was wearing a shiny, oversize dark-brown suit. His hair was shaved close to his head and he had a nose that hung from his face like a door off its hinges.”
-Hannah Tinti
May 2, 2017
“Jane rises. A stiff rustle from the carnation sprigs. She leans over the king’s chair and taps the back of his hand: briskly, as if she were testing a cheese.”
-Hilary Mantel
April 23, 2017
“Monsieur Chabot was longing to smoke, but he didn’t dare ask if he might. Nor had he the courage to look at his son. All he did, therefore, was stand still and keep quiet, and he looked the picture of embarrassment, like an indigent patient in a fashionable doctor’s waiting room.”
-Georges Simenon
April 17, 2017
“It seemed that the fire went north away from the road, then whipped back down toward us.
It teased like a living, malevolent thing, intent on causing pain and terror. It drove us before it like dogs chasing a rabbit. Yet it didn’t eat us. It could have, but it didn’t.”
-Octavia Butler
April 3, 2017
“Work keys jangling like sleigh bells, the Court officers march into the chambers like a two-by-two wagonless team of crew-cut Clydesdales harnessed together by a love of God and country.”
-Paul Beatty
March 28, 2017
“Her closed eyelids are like two eggshells.”
-Vi Khi Nao
The Simile Museum 