“Corinne’s silence was like a mirror, flashing his tiny, harmless lie back to him in huge magnification, all covered with sticky hairs and microbes.”
– Deborah Eisenberg
The Simile Museum
July 21, 2015
“He and Anna Sergeevna loved each other like very close, dear people, like husband and wife, like tender friends; it seemed to them that fate itself had destined them for each other, and they could not understand why he had a wife and she a husband; and it was as if they were two birds of passage, a male and a female, who had been caught and forced to live in separate cages.”
– Anton Chekhov
July 17, 2015
“…someone somewhere
heard the gossip of exotic birds
and passed it on in the night
to another, sleeping curled like an ear…”
– Mary Ruefle
July 9, 2015
“I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that’s eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.”
– Rebecca Solnit
July 2, 2015
“Feelin’ as hard as Vince Carter’s knee cartilage is.”
-Earl Sweatshirt
June 28, 2015
“Life is so fragile. It trembles like the aspens.”
-Derek Walcott
June 19, 2015
“It seemed to me I had achieved a style that was solid, lucid, very controlled, and yet open to sudden breakdowns. The satisfaction didn’t last, however. It diminished, then it vanished. It took me ten years to separate my writing from that specific book, to turn my prose into a tool that I could use elsewhere, like a good solid chain that can pull up the full bucket from the very bottom of the well.”
– Elena Ferrante
June 15, 2015
“Subdivisions are spreading across western Kentucky like an oil slick.”
– Bobbie Ann Mason
June 8, 2015
“Oliver might have guessed at other reasons; he had felt too happy to look for them. Like a driver who has found a shortcut on his daily route, like a soldier who has won an objective without bloodshed, like a writer who has made his point thriftily, he drew happiness from his own efficacy.”
-Harry Matthews
The Simile Museum 