Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.

Neal Shusterman

Tags: simile fish metaphor perfect perfectionism suspicion suspicious



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...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

John Piper

Tags: simile joy similes worship awesome



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A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

John Piper

Tags: simile christianity jesus



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Lugh's decided to stick with bein mad at me. It's like traveling with a storm cloud. One of them that hangs low an heavy. The kind that builds an broods an keeps on buildin an brood in till everybody's got a sick headache.

Moira Young

Tags: simile imagery harboring-anger



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Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies

Julie Anne Grasso

Tags: simile fantasy middle-grade



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...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...

Anne Rivers Siddons

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Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

Louise Erdrich

Tags: women simile emotion



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The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.

Ernest Hemingway

Tags: deception simile



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Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

David Brin

Tags: life simile death space irony



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Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.

Brandon Andress

Tags: simile understanding jesus simplicity eyes jesus-christ understand message ears see complex hear messages understood simple-people



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