Quotes about likeness
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“At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

Dreams, Feeling, Question

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

Death, Star, Birthday, Time

“Lord Peter Wimsey: Books…are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club (1928)
Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Books

“I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts
me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.”

Michel Houellebecq book Whatever

Source: Whatever

World

“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Animals

“Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

Disappointment, Question

“He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Dreams, Idea, Waiting

“Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Life

“I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Home, Cry

“You’re like part human, part rainbow.”

Dave Eggers book The Circle

The Circle

Parting

“You don’t draw, and I don’t breathe. Not so much like last year”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Drawing

“We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Horse

“She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Source: Madness in the Family: Stories

Cry

“You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: Find what you love and let it kill you.

“You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'

'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: Scientific Progress Goes "Boink": A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

World, Animals

“Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Variant: Saying goodbye is a little like dying.
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“Sometimes compromise tastes like caramel macchiato.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

“Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Dance, Dance, Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Tear, Universe, Parting, Personality

“I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

World, Music, Feeling, Problem

“I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Life, People, Change

“That's right. Act likerejected. It's not like you tried to kill me or anything.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."

"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Love, Way

“Darlin'… I know what you look like when you've been kissed.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Kiss

“For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Happiness, Future

“Clary," he said. "You saved my life."
"I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire."
His lips twitched imperceptibly. "Okay," he said. "So maybe our problems aren't like other couples.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Variant: I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire."
His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples.
Source: City of Lost Souls

Life, Problem

“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”

Dawn Powell (1896–1965) American writer

People

“Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Love, Life

“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Love, Life, Feeling

“I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me happy, she makes me sad, she makes me try harder, she makes me laugh, and she makes me feel like I can fly. Isn't that the goddamn definition of Love?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Love, Happiness, Sadness, Feeling

“(on fox news)…. it's like watching a Disney movie about the news.”

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

“I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

Education, Learning

“Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note
to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a
watch or necklace.)”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Boy

“His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Way

“My chest hurts… It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Heart, Hurt

“You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.”

Norman Mailer book The Naked and the Dead

Source: The Naked and the Dead

Rage

“She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower."
"And?" Eddis prompted.
"Well," said Eugenides, "it's a challenge.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.”

Sam Shepard Fool for Love

Source: Fool for Love

Hate, Feeling, Understanding, Time

“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

Time, Dead

“It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Color

“… when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.

~ Fiona MacCarrick ~”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: If You Deceive

Love, Learning

“The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.”

Temple Grandin (1947) USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist

Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”

Bernard Cornwell book The Winter King

Source: The Winter King

Life, Death, God, Fate

“His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

God, Sex, Girl

“Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Children

“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

People, Feeling, Time

“It's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Variant: I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.
Source: Hannibal

Understanding, Learning, Parting

“Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.”

Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Despair

“She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Dogs, Color, Cats, Bee

“Jason looked like her was trying to figure out an equation. "Let me get this straight. Your table ran away… because you polished him with windex.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

“I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.”

Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline

Source: The Lords of Discipline

Home, Sense

“Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”

Gus Van Sant (1952) American film director, producer, photographer and musician

Source: Good Will Hunting

Sleep, Night, Cute

“These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Color

“You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again and I'm breaking your fingers.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

People, Dogs, Cats, Chance

“Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…”
“Thanks,” Simon said. “I’m glad to be classed with the criminal element.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Hate, Guy, Boy, Parent

“She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Children, Night

“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Lie

“The sweatshirt was big on her and she looked ridiculous. He liked it. And he liked that she was wearing something that carried his scent.”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

“I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat."
-pg.170-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Time

“Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.”

Walter Isaacson (1952) American writer and biographer

Hell, Water

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Love, Way

“I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Love, Way, Imagination

“I'm not smart, but I like to observe.
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

Source: Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims

“My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

Women, Family

“Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

God, Moms

“You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Thinking, Horse

“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

Life, Feeling, Selfishness

“He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Dreams, Appearance

“i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Courage, Past, Dead

“Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.”

Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) Novelist

Angels, Sun

“Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

“When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she’s nuts. Nuts, I tell you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Thinking

“And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Life, Housing

“.. he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females… and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.”

Elizabeth Peters The Last Camel Died at Noon

Source: The Last Camel Died at Noon

Men, Hope

“The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

Bruce D. Perry (1955) American psychiatrist

Source: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

Love, Change

“I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

Women

“Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.”

Trudi Canavan book The Magicians' Guild

Source: The Magicians' Guild

Smile

“He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Age, Angels, Baby, Painting

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Beauty, Mother's Day, For Mother

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

Roberto Bolaño book 2666

Source: 2666

People, Music, Idea, Thinking

“I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix book Into the Gauntlet

Source: Into the Gauntlet

“Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.”

Thomas Ligotti (1953) American horror author

“I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.”

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

Drink

“I mean, how do you know if people are good for you or not? It's not like they come with an FDA approved sticker or anything.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

People

“Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time.
Instead, I punched him.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Love, Time

“I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Source: Animal Dreams

Happiness, People, Feeling

“Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Hate, Fate, Guy

“There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Heart, Parting

“I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that." "Medium clever, "Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythbBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Guy

“Screw reality. It don’t feed my dog. It don’t make my Porsche payments. It don’t get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Dogs, Way, Reality

“if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Behavior

“The man irritated her just like a rash.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

“Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Life

“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

Source: The Book Of Military Quotations

War, Science

“Carried away.
He got a little carried away.
This is like saying Hitler was a tad aggressive.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“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

Variant: There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.
Source: Frankenstein

Love, Imagination, Rage

“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

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Quotes about likeness
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