Quotes about likeness
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“You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Feeling

“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

Truth, World, Tree

“Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Girl, Boy

“He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.”

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

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

People, Light

“Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

Marijuana

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 4 “At the Court of Capa Barsavi” section 5 (p. 219)

Freedom

“I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: I Am No One You Know: Stories

Water, Time

“In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

People, World, Season

“I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

“It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.”

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

Feeling, Parent, Waiting

“A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Life, Home, Chance

“Darwin says people like you need to die.” (Carrow)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

People

“Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Men

“No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.”

Harlan Coben book Six Years

Source: Six Years

Feeling, Thinking, Sleep, Cry

“Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Love

“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”

Marge Piercy (1936) American novelist and poet

Love

“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.”

David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music

“It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Way

“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Life, Books, Imagination

“How does it taste?” Carter wondered.
Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.”
To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires.
“Ugh.” I spit a blue gob of “order and harmony” into the fountain.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Smile, Cars, Question, Tattoo

“I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said.
I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face.
I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

Love, Way, Chance

“Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week."
Carl Costanza - Hot Six”

Janet Evanovich book Hot Six

Source: Hot Six

Cars

“Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

Sense, Sun

“Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said.
“Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement.
“Mom,” Piper said with no enthusiasm.
“Girls!” The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug.
The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Girl, Moms, Tree

“What is a Shadowhunter made of, if they desert their own, if they throw away a child’s heart like rubbish left on the side of the road? Tell me, Simon Lewis, if that is what Shadowhunters are, why would I wish to be one?”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Bitter of Tongue

Heart

“Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

World

“Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Soul, Cry

“You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now."
Alec stared at him in horror.
"Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Way, Kiss

“You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall.
"Love you, too, jackass!”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Love

“And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Flying

“Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Decision

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.”

Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels

Source: Lord of Scoundrels

World

“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Fear, Travel, Heart

“It’s a big raised platform at the end of the square, with steps running up to it.”
Like a stage?” Evanlyn suggested. “Maybe they’re planning to put on a play?”
Or an execution,” Horace said.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

George Santayana, as quoted in Quotations for Our Time (1977) edited by Laurence J. Peter
Other works

“Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Cats

“Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Photo

“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.”

Kevin Brockmeier book The View from the Seventh Layer

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer

Life, Lie, Sadness, Feeling

“Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Books, Study, Learning, Reading

“I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories

Dreams, Flowers, Light, Dead

“I need Jace,” said Sebastian. “But in his heart, he’s not like me. Butare.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Heart

“Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”

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

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Life, Books, Personality

“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.
Source: City of Bones

Life, World, Family, Feeling

“I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling… I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.”

Stephen J. Cannell (1941–2010) American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor

Home, Coffee, Waiting

“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Love, Life, People, Beauty

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Tree

“She gazed around with a bored air. "This feels just like. But shouldn't you lawyer up before I throw the book at you? No? So what's in the IV bag?”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Books, Feeling

“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

People

“But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Feeling, Time

“Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don’t have the ovaries" (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Moms

“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Beauty

“Nothing had been okay, not for a long time. And every moment that I thought I was getting close, like the one I’d had earlier, seemed to remind the universe that I didn’t deserve that, not yet.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Universe, Time

“What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.”

Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014) American poet

Flowers

“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

Source: Journal of Katherine Mansfield

Tree, Light, Dead

“Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace].
'Some of the time.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Feeling, Time

“And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Death

“Camille brushed by Jem, hardly looking at him, and Will followed, pausing only long enough to mutter "She doesn't smell like anything" to Jem under his breath.
Jem looked alarmed. "You've beenher?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Men, Dogs

“We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.”

James Clavell book Shōgun

Source: Shōgun

Tear, Time

“I looked like a ghost.
And I should know. I’ve seen a few.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Betrayals

“Nothing I like to do pays well.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 141 : 'Rooster Cogburn' to 'Mattie Ross'

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

Love, Peace, Imagination, Rage

“Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

“A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.”

Dennis Miller (1953) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor

Study

“I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.”

Iris Murdoch book A Severed Head

Source: A Severed Head

Feeling

“Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Variant: Haters are confused admirers who want to be like you.

Understanding

“She couldn’t very well let him join her in bed like that.
Sure you could.
No I can’t.
Please?
Hush, self, let me think.’ (Grace)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Thinking

“This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Game

“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

People, World, Hope, Thinking

“yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

Wine, Night

“You all right, man?'
This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man.
Ah…' I stumble.
Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. “You shouldn’t have turned it on! It’s unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

“Time flows away like the water in the river.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Water, Time

“Fenworth!'
Yes?'
You bore me with your prattle.'
Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Source: DragonSpell

Problem

“The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Life, Way, Distant

“How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.”

Carol Ryrie Brink book Caddie Woodlawn

Source: Caddie Woodlawn

Life, Girl, Personality

“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”

Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep

Winter

“The Chairman likes you.”
“Is that good?”
“I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Cats

“Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)”

D.J. MacHale book The Reality Bug

Source: The Reality Bug

Reality, Time, Dead

“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Summer Lightning

Source: Summer Lightning

“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

Love, Star

“The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Time

“Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?”

Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer

Source: Night of the Soul Stealer

Life

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Life

“You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Help

“Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.
And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

Cecelia Ahern book PS, I Love You

Source: PS, I Love You

Peace, Fight

“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Love

“You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Disappointment

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Men, Solitude

“I wonder, though…what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.”

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

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Boy

“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love, Water

“Clavo saca clavo.
Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.”

Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature

People, Change

“3. When he smiles at you, sometimes you feel like crying.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13

Smile, Feeling, Cry

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Quotes about likeness
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