Quotes about likeness

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“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”

“I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”

“She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.”

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”

“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

“Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.”

“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”

“Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason”

“He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.”

“The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary”

“A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.”

“What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?”

“The missing aren't missing, they're only departed,
All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded”

“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”

“It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky
like that, I wish I could write music”

“I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.”

“That's not a real answer.'
Says who?'
Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.'
Clowns.”

“They're not so bad. They just need some attention…. Like pets. Or my brother.”

“How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.

The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.”

“My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.”

“Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.”

“It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.”

“Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkov--my more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroi--and another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often just crazy) ever since we first met”

“I should like to freeze in time all those I do love… Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!”

“and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly”

“I write, not for children, but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.”

“I have another friend who gets what I’m really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?”

“For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”

“You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.”

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”

“He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.”

“The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.”

“Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?”

“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.”

“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.”

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”

“Sounds like a plan worthy of Athena.”

“You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.”

“Look, he isn’t even concerned.”
I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.”
“I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,” Jim offered.”

“My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”

“I've always liked the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be so it's easier to remember who I am.”

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”

“What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.”

“You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.”

“The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.”

“people's emotions are rarely put into words, far more often they are expressed through other cues.
the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels, tone of voice, gesture, facial expression and the like”

“Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.”

“Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.”

“It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.”

“I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“His face was like the autumn sky, overcast one moment and bright the next.”

“You are… you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.”

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”

“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”

“At least the statue didn’t rumble, “DIE, UNBELIEVERS!” and zap the mortals to dust. Reyna had once dealt with a statue of the goddess Diana like that. It hadn’t been her most relaxing day.”

“Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante)
Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)”

“I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!”

“What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?”

“He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well…”

“I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his
passion. He must have looked like an
earthquake walking down the street.”

“She was staying. A little longer.
V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.”

“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”

“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.”

“Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.”

“… if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened… but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.”

“And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.'… Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.”

“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

“I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car."
Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?"
"No. But I like to pretend it is.”

“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.”

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”

“but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”

“The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.”

“Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.”

“We're broken. It's like we have all these jagged edges that scare other people off, but when we're with each other, our jagged edges fit together and we're almost whole.”

“What’s in that backpack, by the way? You’re always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory)
Dirty underwear. (Acheron)”

“Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.”

“You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.”

“At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---"
"Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.”

“Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”

“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

“Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, “Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.”

“Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.”

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”

“Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken… a useless thing. Then make an offer.”

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

“There is nothing like love. You should try it.”

Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.”

“Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.”

“To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.”

“There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.”

“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”

“Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.”

“Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decided to destroy it. He couldn't imagine why. Maybe they hadn't like the deep-tissue massage? Maybe they'd gotten bad manicures?”

“A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about.”