Quotes about likeness
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“For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.”

Muriel Spark book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

A Birthday http://www.poetry-online.org/rossetti_christina_a_birthday.htm, st. 1 (1861).

Bird, Tree, Singing, Heart

“Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
comes death on a strange hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Death, Angels

“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: I don’t understand writers who have to work at it. I like to play. I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

Idea

“Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

God, Thinking

“I just read them for fun."
"Dictionaries?"
"Yes."
"That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful."
"Awful used to mean 'full of awe.' The same meaning as awesome. I learned that from a dictionary."
He blinked.
"See?" She said. "Fun.”

Max Barry (1973) Australian writer

Source: Lexicon

Learning, Reading

“Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

People

“At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Thinking

“Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.'
'Never. Going. To. Happen.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Horse

“Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Family, Bird

“Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal…”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”

O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer

Source: The Complete Life of John Hopkins

Life

“Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.”

Robin McKinley Chalice

Source: Chalice

Laughter

“It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: Girl at Sea

“She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Heart, Animals

“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Personality

“What is 45 minutes to an old goat like you?" - Vanda
"I believe it is still 45 minutes." - Connor”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Forbidden Nights with a Vampire

“would never make up anything like that.”
"That's because Aaron doesn't say anything that requires words of more than one syllable.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Revenge

“It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Beauty, Way, Fish

“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.
Source: The Book Thief

Way

“… As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

Drawing

“Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

“People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

People, Beauty

“I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: The Irrational Season

Life, Travel, Light

“Ah, you fight like a sissy demon. (Takeshi)
Sissy demon? Have you ever met a sissy demon? (Savitar)
I killed three this morning. (Takeshi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Fight

“If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“Percy hated tests. Since he'd lost his memory, his whole life was one big fill-in-the-blank. He was _____, from _____. He felt like _____, and if the monsters caught him, he'd be _____.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Variant: Since Percy’d lost his memory, his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like
____________________, and if the monsters
caught him, he’d be____________________.
Source: The Son of Neptune

Life, Hate, Memory

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”

Charles Bukowski book Tales of Ordinary Madness

Variant: I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

Sadness, Feeling, Thinking, Cry

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Learning, Time, Future

“If there's someone you like and they like you back…It's close to a miracle…”

Natsumi Ando (1970) Manga artist

Source: Kitchen Princess, Vol. 04

“Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.”

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Future, Season

“Your shadow stealthily
leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle
that sews together my footsteps.
Your light pliantly
strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt
that severs the source of my life.
-Soifon”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 18

Life, Light, Water

“I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: Just One Wish

Dreams, Boy, Time

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Memory

“No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Feeling, Kiss

“If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Runaway

“Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

World

“Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.”

Helder Camara (1909–1999) Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife

Source: Spiral Of Violence

Love, Men, World

“Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Hope, Dead

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Life, Happiness, Failure, Success

“so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?”

Janet Kagan book Uhura's Song

Source: Uhura's Song

Problem, Madness

“May I make a suggestion," said Will. "About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a little to the left-”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Variant: If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—
Source: Clockwork Prince

“I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda)
It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Personality

“I'm after something far more esoteric than a virginal shag. Though, if you'd like, darlin', I'm certainly up for the task.”

Alyson Nöel book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

“Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987)

Dogs, Feeling, Lovers

“Be who you like as long as you mean it.”

Alan Cumming (1965) Scottish actor

“Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.”

Thomas Wolfe book Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

Death, Home, Time

“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Fashion, Housing

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter
Source: A Walk to Remember

Love, Life, Hope, Feeling

“I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.”

Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint

Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

Fear, Travel

“Like all of my fictions, Sinner is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

“Also … the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.”

Kathy Reichs book Code

Source: Code

Study, Chance

“I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking

“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.”

Orson Scott Card book Heartfire

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 1.

Feeling

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

James Fenimore Cooper book The Last of the Mohicans

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Ch. 18

Love, History

“That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Courage, Change

“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Variant: Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

“My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Imagination, Reality

“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.”

Elena Ferrante book The Days of Abandonment

Source: The Days of Abandonment

Past

“It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Feeling, Cheating

“Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Tear, Tree, Waiting, Cry

“his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night.
Percy Jackson”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Girl, Night

“That night I lay in bed, remembering the moment when her hand touched mine. I wondered what it would be like to have her touch me not by accident, to maybe have her let me touch her.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Night

“I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in—like peace and justice and freedom.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Source: Wall and Piece (2007)

Peace, Justice, Democracy, Thinking

“And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.”

Will Christopher Baer Kiss Me, Judas

Source: Kiss Me, Judas

Love, Life

“Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Color, Autumn

“Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

Pain, Happiness

“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

Money, God, Imagination, Universe

“We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Source: True Love

Love, Women

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Reality, Chance

“And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. - Jace Wayland.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace and Clary, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
"And you what?"
"What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."

Feeling

“Why is it so hard to say no to him? Is this what it's like to be in love with somebody?”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Love

“The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Way

“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”

Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Life, Smile

“all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

Life, Country

“If you don’t go after Luke,” Clary said, enunciating very clearly, “I, personally, will kill you.”
For a moment Jocelyn looked astonished. Then she smiled. “Well,” she said, “if you put it like that.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Smile, Personality

“When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Beauty, Feeling, Help

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Context: I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.

Lying

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Life, Motivational, Deep, Success

“Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something
clever, like try to escape from the pot.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”

George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara

Source: Major Barbara

Men

“Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world
acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.”

Patrick Califia-Rice (1954) American writer

Variant: Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.

Wisdom, Women, Truth, World

“He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Light

“Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Death

“Why not? Do you like him?” Magnus’s eyes gleamed. “He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.
Source: City of Glass