I’m like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it’ll make you cry.

The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

High School is like a spork: it’s a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Southampton’s barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

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...

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well, except for that fact that boats are not generally round, orange and on...

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger.

It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot’s mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily...

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

Sex is like air; it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

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.