Quotes about likeness
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“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

People, Thinking

“You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense."
-Percy”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“Daimons, vampires, ghouls, whatever you want to call them. They suck your blood and your soul and leave you with nothing. Kind of like lawyers. (Selena)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Soul

“Oh, I never kid about Artemis. I promised her I’d sit here and do nothing, so here I am doing nothing. Much like a really tall, bored guard dog. Personally, I’d rather be throwing myself onto an electric fence- be about the same, I think. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Dogs, Thinking, Personality

“When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.”

Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist

Travel, Memory

“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”

Barbara Pym book Less than Angels

Less than Angels (1955), chapter 9

Life, Pleasure, Sadness, Home

“A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Dead

“What do you mean fainted?
Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Kiss

“Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

God, Hate

“She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

World, Drink

“He handed her the other half of his candy bar.
She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Animal Magnetism

Food

“Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion."
"No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

Fashion

“Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.”

Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides

Dreams, Sleep, Memory

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

Life, Change, Dead

“It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

“Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

Way

“You think she’ll be able to talk sense into him?” she asked. “His sister?”
"If he listens to anyone, it would be her.”
“That’s sweet,” said Maia. “That he loves his sister like that.”
“Yeah,” Simon said. “It’s precious”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love, Thinking, Sense, Sister

“I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.”

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970) Lawyer, novelist, travel writer

Source: The Case Of The Careless Cupid

“White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious.. Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Love, Guy

“Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.”

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Source: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Life, Law, Science

“How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Feeling

“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Life, Time

“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”

Bill Gates book The Road Ahead

Source: The Road Ahead

“I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.”

George Clooney (1961) American actor, filmmaker, and activist

Life, Personality, Powerful

“He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

People, Idea

“Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Queen of the Damned

Love, Feeling, Thinking, Perfection

“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”

Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves

Source: Laughable Loves

Death

“(Looking at their son on ultrasound.)
He looks like an angel. (Cassandra)
I don’t know. I think he looks like a frog or something. (Wulf)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Angels, Thinking

“Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.”

Alice Hoffman The Story Sisters

Source: The Story Sisters

Love

“Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Music, Color, Imagination, Time

“Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

“This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: A Wallflower Christmas

Girl, Kiss

“Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?”

Alyson Nöel book Dark Flame

Source: Dark Flame

“Travis: I didn’t know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month.
Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek.
Travis: You are a geek.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Clothes

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

Water, Sea

“People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

People, Music, Freedom

“I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.”

Holly Black book Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

Hate

“Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Change

“There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.”

Sarah Dunant (1950) English writer, broadcaster and critic

Source: Blood & Beauty: The Borgias

“Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.”

Cornelia Funke (1958) author

World, Night

“Waking up to you is like… presents on Christmas morning."
His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Christmas

“mr youse needn't be so spry
concernin questions arty

each has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain party

gimme the he-man's solid bliss
for youse ideas i'll match youse

a pretty girl who naked is
is worth a million statues”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Girl, Idea, Question

“He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Thinking

“Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Feeling, Time, Reading

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Men, For Men

“All right, the pendulum isn’t working. Sometimes you need an accelerant to help it.” – Death
“Like gasoline?” – Nick
“Yes, Nick. We’re going to set the book and your pendulum on fire and then use them ’cause we’re just that intelligent.” – Death”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Death, Books, Intelligence, Help

“I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock

Pain, Light, Suffering, Summer

“So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone…. there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Hate, World

“Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

World, Cats

“Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

Way, Thinking, Effort, Change

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Time, Powerful

“Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Love, Hate, Feeling

“True. I'd always hoped that when I finally said 'I love you' to a girl, she'd say 'I know' back, like Leia did to Han in Return of the Jedi.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi
Source: City of Bones

Love, Hope, Girl

“Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.'
Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Source: DragonSpell

Sense

“I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

People, Passion

“Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Life, Feeling

“If you act like you can do something, then it will work.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Game, Sport, Universe

“She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Angels, Loneliness, Cry, Flying

“You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Love, Feeling

“Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.”

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher

Source: Cool Memories

Pleasure

“Kyle want to be a rockstar. I think hes working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna."
"I have no idea what you're talking about.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Idea, Thinking

“Fang: When do I get out of here?
Max: They say a week.
Fang: So, like, tomorrow?
Max: That's what I'm thinking.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Thinking

“Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad…”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Sadness, Smile, Cars

“If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Secret, Night, Forgetting

“Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Music

“When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

World, Feeling

“But you'll be killed!"
"I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice."
Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Kiss

“It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon.”

Martin Cruz Smith (1942) American writer

Love, People

“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading… and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Books, Time, Reading

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”

Leo Rosten (1908–1997) American writer

Life

“I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

Money

“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing… it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

Fools, Wine, Singing, Dance

“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Love

“She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.”

Raymond Chandler book The Lady in the Lake

Source: The Lady in the Lake (1943), chapter 1
Context: The little blonde at the PBX cocked a shell-like ear and smiled a small fluffy smile. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.

Housing

“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and 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

Source: Walden and Other Writings

Behavior, Soul, Parting

“Next time you think of me like that, say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

Thinking, Time

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.”

John Webster (1578–1634) English dramatist

Act V, scene v.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)

“I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Seduction

“If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Music, Communication, Understanding

“Sometimes it's hard when you want to be like someone but you don't know how.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Well, hello there, Mother,” Sebastian said in a voice like silk. “Surprised to see me?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Shall we never never get rid of this Past?… It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The House of the Seven Gables

Source: The House of the Seven Gables

Past, Dead

“The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by”

Susanna Clarke (1959) British author

Source: Jonathan Strange i pan Norrell. Tom 3

Painting

“Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Women, Men, Drink

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match… Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Love, Life

“Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Context: Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. But in Oratory the greatest Art is to hide Art.

Law