{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["dogs","simile"],"id":14730,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["description","pictures","poetry","portrait","simile","words"],"id":16095,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["guilt","humbert-humbert","lolita","metaphor","simile"],"id":21248,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.","author":"Carl Hiaasen","tags":["quiet","silence","simile","train"],"id":21721,"author_id":"Carl+Hiaasen"},{"text":"There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","description","garth-risk-hallberg","school","simile"],"id":23279,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gustave Flaubert","tags":["depression","lydia-davis","madame-bovary","sad","simile","soul","translation","waiting"],"id":27136,"author_id":"Gustave+Flaubert"},{"text":"Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["catherine-lacey","childhood","memory","nobody-is-ever-missing","repressed-memories","simile"],"id":27214,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["percy-jackson","simile"],"id":36584,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.","author":"John Green","tags":["reading","simile"],"id":42821,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","amateur","antitheistic","apologetics","application","argumentation","atheism","bible","counter-argument","criticism","deceit","development","dialect","discernment","fallacies","false-preaching","false-prophet","false-teaching","falsehood","figurative","foolish","immaturity","improvement","instrument","judgment","knowledge","language","learning","lies","lingo","logic","logical-fallacies","mastering","mastering-oneself","mastering-the-mind","maturity","metaphor","mind","music","philosophy","practice","preacher","professional","prophet","religion","scripture","simile","studying","teacher","theism","theology","truth","wisdom"],"id":45066,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":119,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}