“But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist.”
-Madeline Miller
The Simile Museum
June 20, 2021
“The sky was black like the middle of a eye.”
-Souvankham Thammavongsa
May 2, 2021
“Condense your want into a word, and water will emerge from your mouth like milk.”
-K-Ming Chang
April 20, 2021
“..the one corner of the throw rug that flipped up like a cowlick…”
-Celeste Ng
April 7, 2021
“Constitutionalism didn’t burst from the head of James Madison, like Athena from Zeus, simply on account of all the books he’d read. Sure, constitutionalism flew from the pages of those books, but it was also shot from the barrel of a gun.”
-Jill Lepore
March 28, 2021
“With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
March 16, 2021
“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone — and then, to actually forget — can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
– Maggie Nelson
March 7, 2021
“He skitters through the schoolyard like a traitor to childhood.”
-Richard Powers
February 28, 2021
“The woman was staring at her, so Ava stared back—the two of them aiming their gazes at each other like guns—all the way across the City of Lights. Just looking at each other from opposite shores of the rattling train. Eventually Ava took off her earrings, still not taking her eyes off the woman. Why? Because her assumption at that point, of course, was that the two of them would fight to the death. But when the train pulled into the last stop on the line, the woman just stood to exit, and when she did so, she even held back the sliding doors politely, so Ava could go first.”
-Mona Awad
The Simile Museum 