Quotes about likeness
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“One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

Stupidity, Feeling

“I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Thinking

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Heart

“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.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Beer, Cry

“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.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

Life, Imagination, Time

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

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

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

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Secret, Cats, Idea

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

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Books

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

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Autumn, Decision

“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.”

Marguerite Duras book Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Love, People, Kiss, Learning

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

Jimmy Fallon (1974) American TV Personality

Way, Star

“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.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Sense

“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”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love, Truth

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Books, Fashion, Success

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

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Feeling, Time

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

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

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

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

People

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

Henning Mankell book Italian Shoes

Source: Italian Shoes

Music, Night, Dead

“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.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Study

“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.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Death, Fear, Failure, Question

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

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Books

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

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Life, Shoe

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

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Christmas, Summer

“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.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“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”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

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

Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist

Love, Books, Flowers, Time

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

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

Sadness, Bird, Tree, Flying

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

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Children

“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?”

Megan Abbott book The Fever

Source: The Fever

Time, Personality

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Light, Universe

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

Angie Sage book Flyte

Source: Flyte

“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.”

Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer

Happiness, Feeling, Mountain, Learning

“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.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Guy, Help, Baby, Sea

“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.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

Idea

“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?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Wolf

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

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

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.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Feeling, Hurt, Relationship

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

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

Love, Learning

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

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Night

“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.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Love, Feeling, Understanding

“Sounds like a plan worthy of Athena.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

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

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“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.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Dreams

Tea

“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.”

Francesca Lia Block book Witch Baby

Source: Witch Baby

Pain, Beauty, Imagination, Flowers

“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.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Trusting Soul

Time

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

John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids

Source: Book opening line. (Ch.1, p.7) [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1954 reprint.]

“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.”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Life, Children, Guy, Success

“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.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Love, People, Time

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

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King (2011)

World, Disease

“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”

Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

People, Feeling, Reading

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

E.E. Cummings book EIMI

EIMI (1933)
Context: My theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. "Would you hit a woman with a child?— No, I'd hit her with a brick." Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.