Quotes about likeness
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“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure - despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Love, Life, Secret

“In you is the illusion of each day.
You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers.
You undermine the horizon with your absence.
Eternally in flight like the wave.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Flowers

“Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.”

Malorie Blackman book Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

People

“And hope is like love… a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

Love, Hope

“I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Idea, Rage, Baby

“It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl… an aria of fear made audible.
The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Fear, Suffering

“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Love, Women, Men, Thinking

“You will tell me what you know now," he said.

"Or?"

He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Love, Guy

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
he liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Girl, Boy

“… If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Prison is like high school with knives.”

Raegan Butcher (1969) American actor and singer

School

“Well, I didn't need them.
I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose.
I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.”

Jacqueline Wilson book Lola Rose

Source: Lola Rose

Idea

“and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“Would like to join me? (Astrid)
I think I’d look strange in a bikini. (Zarek)
Was that a joke? Can it be you made a real joke? (Astrid)
Yeah, I must be possessed or something. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Thinking

“In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

World

“I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Love, Music, Thinking

“and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”

Eric Hoffer book The True Believer

Section 10
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements

People, Business

“I'd be a sucker for a guy who wrote me a song,” I said. “Like Beth or Rosanna or Sara. Or Sharona. Is that too much to ask? To be somebody's Sharona?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Guy

“I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Time, Sea

“Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.”

Sheri Reynolds (1967) American writer

Source: A Gracious Plenty

Truth, Hurt

“Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“Yet love enters my blood like an I. V.,
dripping in its little white moments.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Love

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Alexander Donald (7 February 1788)
1780s
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Books, World, Family

“I like the way you've let your hair go curly," he finally said. "Suits your personality. Lots of energy, not much control, sexy as hell,"
Joe Morelli to Stephanie Plum”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

Way, Hell, Personality

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

Way

“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

As quoted by Josiah Quincy III, in Looking Toward Sunset : From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected (1865) by Lydia Maria Francis Child, p. 431
Attributed

Exercises, Horse

“I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

Love

“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Water

“There was nothing like having a dead husband return from the grave to ruin a fine spring morning.”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Source: Second Sight

Spring, Dead

“It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.”

Andrew Sean Greer (1970) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Confessions Of Max Tivoli

Happiness, People, Imagination, Star

“They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Age, Siblings

“This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.'

Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.

Yes.

I like that a lot.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Death, Stupidity, Feeling, Boy

“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.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Way

“When you’ve found the right one - when you see him, when you’re with him - you’ll feel like you’re coming home.”

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1933) American children's writer

Source: Now I'll Tell You Everything

Feeling, Home

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Books, Reading

“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Lovers, Bird

“undying grattitude?" Simon looked at me. " Cool. Dosethat come with eternal servitude? if so, i like my eggs sunnyside up."
i smiled," i'll remember that.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Smile

“I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong… with a spoon in them.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

Glorious (1997)
Variant: I like my coffee like I like my women... in a plastic cup.
Source: Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill

Women, Coffee, Strong

“He looks like the good boy he's never been.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Boy

“I'd like to know what a place iswhen I'm. I'd like to be.”

Ray Bradbury book The Illustrated Man

Source: The Illustrated Man

“Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest.”

Loraine Despres (1938) Novelist/screen writer

Source: The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By

Love, Pain, Pleasure

“Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.”

N.T. Wright (1948) Anglican bishop

Source: After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

God

“My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Pain, Angels, Heart

“Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
that if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilled on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Life, Secret, Water, Chance

“Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.”

Desmond Morris (1928) English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter

Funny

“Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning?

A: Unfertilized”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“SHE LIKES MY SPARK!!!!--Calcifer”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.”

Terry Goodkind book Naked Empire

Source: Naked Empire

Way, Thinking

“I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

Pain, Pleasure

“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked.
"You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

Love, Waiting

“He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.”

Herbie Brennan (1940) Irish Author

Love

“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.

Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Life, People, Game

“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

Feeling

“I’ve lived a long time,” Magnus said. “So many years, and no, it doesn’t feel like enough. I won’t lie and say it does. I want to live on—partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Lie, Feeling, Time, Past

“Reyna had always thought of Jason Grace as the all-American boy. Thalia looked more like the girl who robbed all-American boys at knifepoint in an alley.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Girl, Boy

“His descent was like nightfall.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

“She is so naked and singular.
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.
Climb her like a monument, step after step.
She is solid.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Dreams

“So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Chance, Time

“I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

People, Appearance

“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.”

Umberto Eco book The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

Beauty

“But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.”
“Already crazy about you, Sage.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Time

“Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.”

Garth Brooks (1962) American country music artist

Life

“I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

The Guardian interview (2002)

Quotes

“It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love

“How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?"
"I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot."
"That's universal?"
"No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow."
Amy moved.”

Jude Watson book Beyond the Grave

Source: Beyond the Grave

Universe, Parting

“O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places".

"Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.”

Hannah Hurnard book Hinds' Feet on High Places

Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places

Way

“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Love, Life, Truth, Feeling

“the sweet juices of your mouth
are like castles bathed in honey.
i've never had it done so gently before.
you have put a circle of castles
around my penis and you swirl them
like sunlight on the wings of birds.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar

Bird

“I thought you were dead."
Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Smile, Cats, Dead

“Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Love

“I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

People, Beauty, Feeling

“Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.”

Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies

Source: Bring Up the Bodies

Truth, Personality

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”

Mary Connealy (1956) Author

Source: Doctor in Petticoats (Center Point Christian Romance

Love, People, Peace, Strong

“Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,'
Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?'
Stig: 'I like my head where it is.”

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

Source: The Outcasts

“I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.”

Sara Shepard book Flawless

Source: Flawless

Feeling

“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Personality

“Good memories are like charms… Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Color, Memory

“Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Moms

“Don’t move. I like this ledge of loose diamonds
waiting to be spilled into the night.
Let’s shine awhile without touching.
Sensuality is, after all, a river that is always waiting.”

Tess Gallagher (1943) American writer

Source: Moon Crossing Bridge

Waiting, Night

“What are you? (Nick)
Completely perplexed. You remember everything that happened. (Acheron)
Yeah. Duh. Not like you’re going to forget the killer zombie stalkers and psyched-out kitchen staff. What kind of freak show is this? (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Forgetting

“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Seduce the Darkness

Hate

“You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it.
Lula to Stephanie”

Janet Evanovich Twelve Sharp

Source: Twelve Sharp

“like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Way, Silence

“I'll never fall in love again… it's like having two souls at the same time.”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

Love, Soul, Time

“You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.”

Angie Sage book Queste

Source: Queste

“He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair… He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Enchanted

Men

“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”

Julia Glass book Three Junes

Source: Three Junes

Solitude, Joy

“We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Variant: We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Change, Time, Parting

“The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Snow Country

Source: Snow Country

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Quotes about likeness
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