“Patches of overgrown grass resembled a comb-over on the head of a bald person who didn’t want to see reality.”
-Elif Batuman
The Simile Museum
Tag: Novel
April 14, 2022
“He felt the mystery of his own unconscious like a whale looming invisibly beneath a tiny swimmer. If he couldn’t search or retrieve or view his own past, then it wasn’t his. It was lost.”
-Jennifer Egan
April 3, 2022
“She came into his eyes sudden and permanent as a photograph.”
-Tracy O’Neill
March 18, 2022
“I trailed spiderwebs like finish-line ribbons as I walked between saplings.”
-Molly Dektar
January 20, 2022
“…silent as a fig.”
-Gayl Jones
January 15, 2022
“She was as empty inside as a scooped-out melon.”
-C.J. Hauser
December 22, 2021
“The streets run steeply up and down, ad the streetcars travel back and forth like rooms ablaze with light.”
-Herta Müller
November 22, 2021
“Everyone started to hunker down. They were busy with work, and some people had begun having families, too, so they stayed home with their kids on the weekend, which made sense. People evaporated, though only by about fifty percent: they still existed as texts and likes and shares. Like ghosts, showing up at a séance by way of knocking over your teacup.”
-Adrienne Celt
October 5, 2021
“Grief rattles about your mind like a loose pebble in a shoe.”
-Caleb Azumah Nelson
August 31, 2021
“Nora’s voice was annoyingly like Alison’s, precise and concerned, careful, like the handwriting on a get-well card.”
-Alexandra Kleeman
The Simile Museum 