“Their physical connection had been so strong that it had embarrassed her, the way they had kept brushing up against one another, like aloof but aware cats.”
-Natalie Bakopoulos
The Simile Museum
Tag: Novel
June 1, 2016
“I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal.”
-Sylvia Plath
May 29, 2016
“An unfinished novel is like having a sick guest in the house.”
-William Gaddis
May 22, 2016
“The professor, his face beautiful under straight whiskers, like a vine-overgrown veranda of some fine old house, disarmed him.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
March 29, 2016
“It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges.”
-Lauren Groff
March 21, 2016
“I felt as if someone had taken a vegetable peeler to my nerves.”
-T.C. Boyle
February 29, 2016
“The beautiful, glittering name fell out of the sky like a steel-blue feather. She watched it fall, turning and twisting like a slow-falling arrow that cleaves the deep air beautifully.”
-Virginia Woolf
February 10, 2016
“We stood there like mesmerized criminals who had forgotten to flee the scene.”
-Miranda July
February 3, 2016
“The girl, abandoned, was dumbfounded, standing there as expressionless as a frozen fish.”
-Kobo Abe
January 1, 2016
“Well why did you come over. I invited you to my home. He looked me straight in the face. We paused for a moment like animals who hear a loud bang. I’ll let you out, he said.”
-Eileen Myles
The Simile Museum 