“it was the longest day of the year, and the Irish Sea had a metallic tint. The waves were tiny but insistent, like uncoöperative children.”
-D.T. Max
The Simile Museum
Tag: Simile
October 5, 2021
“Grief rattles about your mind like a loose pebble in a shoe.”
-Caleb Azumah Nelson
September 22, 2021
“The laughter came wrung out against my will like sugar, like sweat, like a whole child, like oil from a grape seed, an unlikely miracle.”
-Venita Blackburn
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
August 10, 2021
“Aleq sat with him, but Malik didn’t seem to see him. Food appeared on his lap and then was taken away. Aleq reminded him of the way, on bad-weather days, they used to tell each other that if they closed their eyes and opened them again, the sun would be back out.
Finally Malik moved his arms and opened his eyes. His head swayed like they were on a boat.”
-Jim Shepard
July 14, 2021
“But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist.”
-Madeline Miller
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
The Simile Museum 