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When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid. Sue Monk Kidd
The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles. Ayn Rand
It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs. Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to define and strengthen her or protect her from... Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou quote: "Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like..."
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Maya Angelou
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep. Alan Watts
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely... Epictetus
I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality. Antonin Artaud
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home."How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink."Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single... Neil Gaiman
She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe Stephen King
Live is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?"Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't. Michael Chabon
I used myself, let nothing use me. Like being on a private dole, sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt. What life there was, was mine, now and again to lay one hand on a warm brick and touch the sun's ghost with economical joy. Adrienne Rich
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it. Terry Prachett
I know what my heart is like. Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge. Holding a little pool. Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Annie Dillard quote: "It was less like seeing than like being for the first time..."
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. Annie Dillard
James Joyce quote: "But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were..."
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. James Joyce

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