“I felt as if someone had taken a vegetable peeler to my nerves.”
-T.C. Boyle
The Simile Museum
March 14, 2016
“I turned around to look at him again, but he was already in the postal truck, pulling out into the street, and all I could see was the back of his postal truck, square as a nun.”
-Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
March 7, 2016
“The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, crossing them where they were wide and shallow. And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; some of them were as big as little trees, with great rough leaves and many branches which bore dozens of blossoms.”
-Willa Cather
March 3, 2016
“He saw his dignity slip away like a blanket.”
-Beryl Markham
February 29, 2016
“The beautiful, glittering name fell out of the sky like a steel-blue feather. She watched it fall, turning and twisting like a slow-falling arrow that cleaves the deep air beautifully.”
-Virginia Woolf
February 23, 2016
“Lucky’s mouth choking on his every syllable, proud, smiling so hard his lips curl up like burning paper, his sister’s fingers gripping his own.”
-T. Kira Madden
February 10, 2016
“We stood there like mesmerized criminals who had forgotten to flee the scene.”
-Miranda July
February 3, 2016
“The girl, abandoned, was dumbfounded, standing there as expressionless as a frozen fish.”
-Kobo Abe
January 29, 2016
“When the clouds part
like stupid lovers,
I close my eyes and press
myself against
the eucalyptus tree.”
-Erika Sánchez
January 27, 2016
“Late one evening, while lying on a blanket in the garage, Duchess gave birth to a litter of slick, potato-sized puppies. When it looked as though one of them had died, our mother placed the creature in a casserole dish and popped it into the oven, like the witch in ‘Hänsel and Gretel.’
‘Oh, keep your shirts on,’ she said. “It’s only set on 200. I’m not baking anyone; this is just to keep him warm.'”
-David Sedaris
The Simile Museum 