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  1. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come
    book-quotesimileparaphrased

  2. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon. She did not know what this chance event would be, what wind would drive it to her, what shore it would carry her to, whether it was a longboat or a three-decked vessel, loaded with anguish or filled with happiness up to the portholes. But each morning, when she awoke, she hoped it would arrive that day, and she would listen to every sound, spring to her feet, feel surprised that it had not come; then at sunset, always more sorrowful, she would wish the next day were already there.
    book-quotesoulsadsimile

  3. James Baldwin _ Giovanni's Room

    He was waiting, I think, for me to cross that space and take him in my arms again-waiting, as one waits at a deathbed for the miracle one dare not disbelieve, which will not happen.
    book-quotesadsimilewaiting

  4. James Baldwin _ Giovanni's Room

    But she saw nothing in my eyes-she stared at me as though I had made a long journey on a white charger all the way to her prison house.
    book-quotesimilemiscommunicationknight-in-shining-armor

  5. Gregory Maguire _ After Alice

    Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.
    book-quotesimilenightday

  6. China Miéville _ This Census-Taker

    A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was over his eyes. He looked like a failed soldier. Dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing.
    book-quotesimile

  7. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
    book-quotesimilescreams

  8. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu-you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student-but somehow despite my efforts, I am never able to blend myself in entirely and remain in some respects quite distinct from my surroundings, in the same way that a green chameleon remains a distinct entity from the leaf upon which it sits, no matter how perfectly it has approximated the the subtleties of the particular shade.
    book-quotesimileimpostorthe-secret-history

  9. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting, absorbed in their own concerns, had looked up out of the canvas and spoken to me.
    book-quotesimilepaintingthe-secret-history

  10. Juliet Marillier _ Heir to Sevenwaters

    His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.
    book-quotemusicsimile

  11. Juliet Marillier _ Heir to Sevenwaters

    If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her on that hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.
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