Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: simile hair faces face character-description personal-appearance
His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull.
Jerry SpinelliShe smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
Patrick RothfussSouthampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
Elizabeth WeinTags: simile elephants ghosts moonlight hippos
His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.
Juliet MarillierIf she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her on that hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.
Juliet MarillierTags: love simile romance reunion
... Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing began, nothing resolved.
Annie ProulxMy mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
I lock away the things that do not serve me.
Tags: simile beautiful destroy-me warner
I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.
Vanora BennettTags: simile
My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
David Foster WallaceTags: simile nervous-system
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