A block won’t move without the effort.

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

This supreme instance of Troy’s goodness fell upon Gabriel’s ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu… was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can’t live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the...

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...

She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what...

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...

We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y’know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, “for better or worse”, and...

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

…shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered...

I felt like one of Apollo’s sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.Having a ghost boyfriend WASweird

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click ‘I agree’.

He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body...

Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well…They can be useful. But mainly…They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when...

His voice is muddy, that’s what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long on the burner. And unsweetened, bitter chocolate. But there’s dirt in it too,...

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.

A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship’s wake.

Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest.

He’s like a drug for you, Bella.

…as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn…

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in...

Love is like the human appendix. You take it for granted while it’s there, but when it’s suddenly gone you’re forced to endure horrible pain that can only be alleviated through drugs.

Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.

You,” Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, “are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You’re inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply will not go away.

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

It was a chilly morning after the night’s rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

He stopped the flyersAnd by his rare example made the cowardTurn terror into sport. As weeds beforeA vessel under sail, so men obeyedAnd fell below his stem. His sword, Death’s stamp,Where it did mark, it...

You know, a cell phone’s like a guy; if you don’t plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.

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.

Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world’s better than another;the earth moans with metaphors.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you’d see.

Nanny’s words made Janie’s kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.