- He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like
a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without
one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the
country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at
a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
- She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that
used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you
banged the door open again.
- The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.
- McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a sandwich bag
filled with vegetable soup.
- From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an
eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another
city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
- Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the
center.
- Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
- He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
- The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when
you fry them in hot grease.
- Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a
movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like
"Second Tall Man."
- Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced
across the grassy field toward each other like two freight
trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55
mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
- The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the
Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
- They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth
- John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
had also never met.
- The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin
sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a
play.
- His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
- The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
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