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 ShustermanTag: simile fish metaphor perfect perfectionism suspicion suspicious
...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 PiperTag: simile joy similes worship awesome
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 PiperTag: simile christianity jesus
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 YoungTag: simile imagery harboring-anger
Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies
Julie Anne GrassoTag: simile fantasy middle-grade
...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...
Anne Rivers SiddonsEmotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.
Louise ErdrichThe 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 HemingwayEven 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 BrinTag: life simile death space irony
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 AndressTag: simile understanding jesus simplicity eyes jesus-christ understand message ears see complex hear messages understood simple-people
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