“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
“Her throat was full, with a mole like a tiny cameo in its hollow.”
-Eudora Welty
“Teeth all awry and at all angles like fence.”
-George Garrett
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use,
broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.”
-Virginia Woolf
“The lamplight pulses like wounded honey through the seams
into the soft night, and there is laughter: but nobody else cares.”
-James Agee
“He flies around in stolen cars. Wherever he stops,
kids grow like gourds from women’s bellies.”
-Natalie Diaz
“A book as thin as a Ritz-Carlton sandwich.”
-Stephen Leacock
The Simile Museum 