Quotes about likeness
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“I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Storm Born

God, People

“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

People, World, Light

“I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.”

Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) American Modernist writer, poet and artist

Silence

“Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.”

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

Way

“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

People, Thinking, Change, Time

“Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.”

C.J. Sansom Revelation

Source: Revelation

Gratitude

“I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Way, Baby

“Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

People, Way, Question, Waiting

“Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the thing - those silly dolls get hit all the more for it.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Poison Princess

“There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Light, Winter

“Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

Love, Money

“It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace to Clary, pg. 122
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Learning, Training

“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

Night

“Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Variant: He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
Source: The Nightingale

Love, Thinking

“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Life

“The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Watermelon

Books, World, Feeling

“To be denied was like getting shut out of a Public Park.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”

H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) American science fiction writer

Source: Fuzzies and Other People

Night

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

"The Epigrams of Lusin"
Variant: Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

People, Hope, Country, Hope

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Variant: Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Truth

“You're the enemy. I don't want to sympathize with you. So… So don't… Don't cry like that in front of me! Damn it…”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Band 11

Cry

“We must strive to be like the moon”

Ishmael Beah book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Source: Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel TV Tie-in Edition

“You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.”

Tucker Max book Assholes Finish First

Source: Assholes Finish First

People, Suicide

“Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

People

“What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.”

Richard Russo (1949) American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter

Home

“I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

Stupidity, Thinking

“I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Hell

“Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Love

“I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Science

“All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home… and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

School, Home, Time, Personality

“Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Religion, Sex

“It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."

"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great."

"Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Family

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Icehenge

Source: Icehenge

Dreams, Thinking, Sleep

“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems

Training

“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”

Julio Cortázar book Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Books, Age, Imagination, Cats

“Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone had taken an apple corer to his heart and tried to dig out the center.
“I always do, Alexander,” he said. “I always do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Smile, Feeling, Heart

“I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Time

“I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Quotes, Hell, Personality

“Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

Problem

“I alwayswhatever I liked," she said, "but now I reallydo it.”

A.A. Milne book Once on a Time

Source: Once on a Time

“Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death… before they breed more hemophiliacs.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Death

“I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Source: Phantastes

Departure

“I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.”

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

Love, Silence, Joy

“Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs
and arms used to be. That’s how his mind
felt—like his missing memories were aching.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Pain, Memory

“You're not going to die?"
"Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“Not likely!” Howl yelled. “I’m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I’m not doing it!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Way

“Always walk around like you have on an invisible tiara.”

Paris Hilton (1981) American socialite

“Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Life, Graduation

“You’re not seriously going out again, are you?”
“Seriously, yeah. Bowling. Her name’s Laura. If you want more details, you’re gonna have to download the video like everybody else.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores”

Machado de Assis (1839–1908) Brazilian writer

Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Music, Star, Waiting

“He'd told her that the phrase deal with the Devil came from him; Ellie felt like she was on the verge of selling her soul.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Soul

“All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.”

Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss

Source: The Inheritance of Loss

Color, Mountain, Water

“Living with kids is like living in a frat house… everything's broken, nobody sleeps, and there's alot of throwing up”

Ray Romano (1957) American stand-up comedian

on Everybody Loves Raymond

Sleep, Housing

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Voices of the Night

St. 4.
Cf. Andrew Marvell, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649): "Art indeed is long, but life is short".
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Voices of the Night

Art, Time, Heart

“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

Art, Heart

“One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

War, Fish

“Nothing heals the soul like chocolate… It's God's apology for broccoli.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Variant: Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli
Source: The Sunflower

God, Soul

“She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

Source: The Mandarins

Love, Princess

“Okay, you drive," she said. "I'll sit with m head hanging out of the window like a golden retriever.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

“I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do?

Probably my expression actually conveyed: It’s not my fault! Please do not kill me!”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

God, Smile, Hope, Jerk

“At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know… wall.”

D.J. MacHale The Quillan Games

Source: The Quillan Games

“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Feeling

“I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Life, Truth, World, Thinking

“Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

“What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Parting

“And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

War, Understanding

“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

Chuck Norris (1940) American martial artist and actor

Though often attributed to Norris, this seems to have appeared as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1961, in an edition of The Physical Educator
Misattributed

Men, For Men