Quotes about likeness
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“I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

Time

“I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

Drink, Thinking, Night

“I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.”

Robert Coover (1932) writer, teacher

Guy, Learning

“She'd never seen a monster like that before, had never heard of one in all the Lore. When she grappled with the question of what it was, her sharply honed scientifical mind deduced one answer: manbearpig.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Demon from the Dark

Question

“It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard”

Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen

Source: Faith of the Fallen

Marriage

“A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime”

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

Love

“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

Isobelle Carmody book Obernewtyn

Source: Obernewtyn

People, Waiting

“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Soul

“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Source: The Wide Net and Other Stories

Flowers, Housing

“I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” “I— I figured it’d be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Moms

“I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

People, Understanding

“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Ladies of the Corridor

Intelligence

“I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Love, Books, Idea

“It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

Love, People

“Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

People, Books, Dead

“Nothing?" Favonius cried. "The one you care for most… plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth?"

Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Truth

“It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”

Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

Heart

“It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.”

Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men

Source: Twelve Angry Men

Truth, Personality

“I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Love, Kiss, Time

“Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Ever After

Wisdom

“… the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”

Paul Hoffman book The Left Hand of God

Source: The Left Hand of God

Love, Friendship

“… like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?”

Robin McKinley book The Blue Sword

Source: The Blue Sword

“Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
… On the other hand, he SAID it.”

Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States

Source: Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Silence

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”

Ian McEwan book Enduring Love

Source: Enduring Love

Love, Suffering, Fight

“Her eyes winded. "I'm becoming addicted to you?."
He raised an eyebrow. "You say it like it's a bad thing.”

Michelle Rowen (1971) Canadian writer

Source: The Demon in Me

“I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Women, Men, Children

“Frank gave Leo a confused smile- like he couldn't decide whether to gloat or to thank Leo for being a doofus- but he cheerfully let Hazel drag him along.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Smile

“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Age

“She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don’t come out.”

Janet Frame (1924–2004) New Zealand author

Source: Owls Do Cry

“Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.”

Jane Yolen book Briar Rose

Source: Briar Rose

Truth

“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Man of My Dreams

Happiness

“Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“It doesn’t change what we are to each other. It’s like there’s always been a piece of my soul missing, and it’s inside you, Clary.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Soul, Change

“Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.
'No, stupid,' Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Variant: Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.'
'No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.
Source: The Blood of Olympus

Stupidity

“The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Sister, Tree

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess on the Brink

Hate, Fish

“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Stupidity, Time

“And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Kiss

“Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

“But the true voyagers are only those who leave
Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,
They never turn aside from their fatality
And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

Light, Heart

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Love

“Like a dog!”

Franz Kafka book The Trial

he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.
Source: The Trial (1920), Ch. 10, end of the book

Dogs

“God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns

God, Fear

“Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Dreams, Water

“The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.”

Georges Simenon (1903–1989) Belgian writer

Source: Three Bedrooms in Manhattan

Night, Indifference

“What if we promoted, like, Adidas shoes?” Percy wondered. “Would that make Nike mad enough to show up?”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Shoe, Madness

“Iggy’s spine tightened, his face like ice. When he’d been at the School, they’d tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

School, Night

“Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.”

Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”

Arthur Schopenhauer book Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 347
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

Drink, Water, Sea, Wealth

“It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.”

Douglas Coupland Microserfs

Source: Microserfs

Women, Problem, Waiting

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

Happiness, Thinking, Heart

“That’s a wonderful story.”

“He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you’re certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Variant: He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Source: The Lucky One

Thinking

“Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)