“The yachts, the gleaming motor launches, the sloops, the tern schooners with crews of twenty, they ringed our barge like ants feeding from a fat aphid day and night.”
-Stanley Crawford
“Profound was Gary’s relief the next morning as he bumped and glided, like a storm-battered yacht, into the safe harbor of his work week.”
-Jonathan Franzen
“And the lake always laps at the shore so gently,
licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog.”
-Jenny Erpenbeck
“He told me I was the sign he’d been waiting for and,
like looking into a crystal ball, he’d just read a private message from God
in the silvery vortex of my left pupil.”
-Ottessa Moshfegh
The Simile Museum 