Quotes about likeness
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“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”

Joan Didion (1934) American writer

Source: On Self-Respect

“The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

Truth, Sport, Animals, Parting

“They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Feeling

“You see something you like?”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Variant: Rose Hathaway: "You see something you like?"
Dimitri Belikov: "Get dressed.
Source: Vampire Academy

“I like em young, dumb, and hung." Reign the Radiant”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“Calvin: It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

01 Aug 90
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

People, Idea

“I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Variant: I just want to let you know that I love you all. Even those of you that I don't like; that's you Beryl.
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Love

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Love, People, Feeling, Past

“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.”

Cheryl Strayed book Torch

Source: Torch

World, Memory

“She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Game

“No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.”

Stephen King book Firestarter

Source: Firestarter

“If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

Love

“Do I look like a Jonas Brother? Then why is everyone waiting for me to lose it?”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

Waiting

“Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Reality

“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”

Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels

Source: The Killer Angels

God

“Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Feeling, Water

“The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Hope

“Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Dreams

“These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used up. That took a long time, he knew, because women seemed to have vast reservoirs of goodness in them”

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Love, Women, Men, Time

“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

Joy

“Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Imagination, Water, Change, Time

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love, Hate

“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Life, Wisdom, God, Angels

“Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean,
we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Love, Sun, Parting, Sea

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

Personality

“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”

Lydia Davis (1947) American writer

Source: The Collected Stories

Life, Dreams

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love

“Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Death

“Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Understanding

“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Way, Understanding, Childhood, Personality

“Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Country

“Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Sadness, Dreams

“in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

People

“It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

Source: El caçador d'estels

“I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

People

“It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Age, Time

“You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across…”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Death never comes at thetime, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

Death

“Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

Life, Music

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea

Flowers, Sense

“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

As quoted in The Guardian (1995), and in "Biting back at Microsoft" (5 June 2001) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jun/05/guardianletters3

Idea, Appearance

“You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.”

Sam Shepard Fool for Love

Source: Fool for Love

Disease, Time

“Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

“The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Feeling

“Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Men

“I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

IQ84 (2009-2010)
Variant: I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

Reading, Personality

“Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Life

“Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.”

Matt Taibbi (1970) author and journalist

Source: The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

“Now you’re thinking like me. A little eye-gouging, some slit nostrils…I could seriously get into that. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Thinking

“I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

World, Cry

“I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Solitude, Reading

“It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Context: Jesse Jackson is here. I had him on the show. Very interesting and challenging interview. You can ask him anything, but he’s going to say what he wants at the pace that he wants. It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

Way, Idea, Box

“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: Our love is like the wind... I cant see it, but I sure can feel it.
Source: A Walk to Remember

Love, Feeling

“You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”

Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels

Source: Lord of Scoundrels

Idea, Time

“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe

“I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Alcohol, Thinking

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Happiness, People, Beauty, Thinking

“There are only four points of warmth and brightness, in the whole world, that burn fiercely enough for me to feel something like the person I was. Your mother, your father, Lucie, and you. You love, and tremble, and burn.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Nothing but Shadows

Love, World, Feeling, Personality

“It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Food

“Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier."
Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Cars, Color, Time

“Courting is the art of growing like mould on the one you want.”

Steven Erikson book The Crippled God

Source: The Crippled God

Art

“Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Past

“Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Life

“Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.”

Hope Mirrlees book Lud-in-the-Mist

Source: Lud-in-the-Mist

“Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.”

Tom Perrotta The Abstinence Teacher

Source: The Abstinence Teacher

Personality

“First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

Sleep, Baby

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”

J.M. Coetzee (1940) South African writer

Life

“To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Feeling

“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Variant: She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
Source: This Lullaby

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Dreams, Future, Hope

“Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.”

Koushun Takami book Battle Royale

Source: Battle Royale

Hope

“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything”

Franz Kafka book The Castle

Source: The Castle (1926)

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Margaret Atwood book Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

Spring, Beauty

“The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Color, Sense

“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. … The petty discomforts that beset the awkward guest, the unskilled camper, are quickly forgotten, while all that is precious remains. Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

" The Yellowstone National Park http://books.google.com/books?id=smQCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA509", The Atlantic Monthly, volume LXXXI, number 486 (April 1898) pages 509-522 (at pages 515-516); modified slightly and reprinted in Our National Parks http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/our_national_parks/ (1901), chapter 2: The Yellowstone National Park <br class="br">1900s, Our National Parks (1901)

Age, Fear, Peace, Mountain

“My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda)
What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Men, God, Law, Guy