London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.
Anna QuindlenTag: geography similes cities london literary-london metropolis urban-geography
Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.
Faith HunterTag: similes
Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.
George SaundersNewly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda
Chris WareTag: similes description gross
The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.
Raymond ChandlerA soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, "It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.
William JoyceTag: similes pleasant soothing
A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.
William JoyceIf I sneezed, writers’ vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.
Dennis VickersTag: similes
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