Quotes about likeness
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“Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great and now you're just friends. Drives girls crazy. Know what I mean?" Yes. Clary thought. "No." Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Sex, Guy, Girl

“It'sloot!" he yelled, standing on his tiptoes so he could get in Clarisse's face. "If you don't like it, you can kiss my quiver!”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Kiss

“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

Life, Beauty

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Feeling, Tea

“A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.”

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

Source: Joe Jones

Marriage, People, Feeling

“Natalya's lips quirked. "You're glowing like a Lite-Brite."

"Shut it, fairy.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkdeath

Reading

“If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Wild Roses

Life, People, Truth

“Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and… reproduction.”

Kelley Armstrong book Stolen

Source: Stolen

Animals, Fight, Parting

“Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something."
Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Waiting

“If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

World, Heart

“I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth”

Eva Ibbotson book The Morning Gift

Source: The Morning Gift

Music

“Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Death, Time, Fight, Flying

“All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool.”

Steven Brust (1955) American fantasy and science fiction author

Source: The Paths of the Dead

Books, Literature, Thinking

“But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.

—Ditta”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: The Joys of Love

Memory, Winter

“You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but… If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.”

Alex Garland book The Beach

Source: The Beach

Life, World, Thinking, Fish

“I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Water Bound

Life

“I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Sex

“Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Children

“Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.”

Thornton Wilder book The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

God, Boy, Summer

“For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Lie, Tree, Wedding, Appearance

“The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Love, Soul, Star, Bird

“Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Attitude

“You don’t like people who have money, do you? (Astrid)
I’m not prejudiced against anyone, princess. I hate everyone equally. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Money, Hate, People, Princess

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.”

Jude Watson book In Too Deep

Source: In Too Deep

Sadness, Parent, Change

“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

W.S. Merwin (1927–2019) American poet

Color, Sad

“He was having an odd paternal rush, a blood surge that was alsoblood and was presently hunting through Howard's expansive intelligence to find words that would more effectively express something like”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Intelligence

“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) writer

Source: Mr. Wrong

Love, Feeling, Sleep

“And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Fury's Kiss

Love, Idea

“Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Hell

“Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)

Men

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Hate, Water, Time

“The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract-- Look, why should we quarrel about a thing like this? We'll take it right out, eh?”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Parting

“But not like this: not with
the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad… recycled.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Carter Kane, Chapter 41
Source: The Red Pyramid

Moms, Housing

“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Color, Feeling, Boy

“People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 12
Calpurnia
Variant: Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

People

“Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real -- brutally honest, inescapably dependable.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Death, Dependency

“She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

Love, Dreams, Thinking

“Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Source: Manhattan

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Happiness

“A day without the sun is like you know, night”

Joe R. Lansdale (1951) American novelist, short story writer, martial arts instructor

Sun, Night

“Flying monkeys?" the Gasman called out a guess. "Like in the Wizard of Oz?"
It dawned on me then. "No," I said tersely "Worse.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Flying

“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”

Shaun Tan (1974) Australian illustrator, writer, and animated filmmaker

World, Cars, Travel, Drawing

“Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

Men

“Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?”

Alan Lightman (1948) Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist

Love, Nature, Personality

“Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.”

China Miéville book Looking for Jake

Source: Looking for Jake and Other Stories

Sun

“The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Books, Soul, Reading

“Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.”

Mark Polish (1970) American film actor, screenwriter and producer

Love, People

“Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

Life, Flowers, Despair

“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Law

“When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 2 : Balthamos and Baruch
Context: Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Way

“I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

“What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Time

“This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Problem

“I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Source: Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle

Art, Perfection

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Children, Youth, Parent, Help

“I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?” Keith asked… “you all think you’re Irish. What’s the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a leprechaun…”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

Thinking

“More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

World, Bird, Sleep

“I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Time, Hurt

“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love

“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Flowers, Nature, Learning, Heart

“Was it like this? (Jesse)
(Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.)
That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

“I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.”

Tana French book The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

Freedom, Grass

“I gotta say"—Apollo broke the silence—"these kids did okay." He cleared his throat and began to recite: "—"

Um, yes, first class," Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Silence

“I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Life, Lovers

“There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Star, Tear, Light

“I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his eyes and laughed. “And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women’s Liberation Movement’s list of things not to say to a modern woman.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Women, People

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Variant: We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

“He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).”

Rick Riordan The Maze of Bones

Source: The Maze of Bones

Stupidity

“Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Music, Grass

“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Painting

“Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist

Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Star, Thinking, Light

“This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, People, Feeling

“It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

World, Feeling

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

People, World, Way, Thinking

“I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali book Infidel

Epilogue: The Letter of the Law
Source: Infidel (2007)

“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Six Earlier Days

Way

“I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.”

Donna VanLiere (1966) American writer

Source: The Christmas Note

People

“First of all, Iit’s all people like you. And that’s what’s so scary. you don’t know what you’re doing.”

Dave Eggers book The Circle

Source: The Circle

People

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

People, Books, Disappointment, Nature

“It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Variant: It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.