“It would be wonderful to be young in this day and age. So many obstacles cleared from the path. Like driving right behind the snowplow.”
-Kate Eodor
The Simile Museum
July 1, 2016
“An important memory is like a gravitational field–the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.”
-Rikki Ducornet
June 29, 2016
“Truth is my mother’s brave as a bison.”
-Ross Gay
June 22, 2016
“Before long, we’re eating krill. They’re clear-bellied, feather-limbed. They feel like onion skins in our mouths, and we have to eat handfuls to feel like we’ve eaten anything at all.”
-Dana Diehl
June 17, 2016
“All she’d ever say was, Let’s enjoy the time we have together, and then she’d cling to his body as if it were the mast of a sinking ship, like she’d lashed herself to him.”
-Matt Bell
June 12, 2016
“Their physical connection had been so strong that it had embarrassed her, the way they had kept brushing up against one another, like aloof but aware cats.”
-Natalie Bakopoulos
June 7, 2016
“Our neighbors stop by and leave bones for the dog, then they go around the dumpster and leave milk in small plates and jar lids around the other mother, like votive candles.”
-Sofia Stambolieva
June 1, 2016
“I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal.”
-Sylvia Plath
May 29, 2016
“An unfinished novel is like having a sick guest in the house.”
-William Gaddis
May 22, 2016
“The professor, his face beautiful under straight whiskers, like a vine-overgrown veranda of some fine old house, disarmed him.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Simile Museum 