"Her face was a perfect
oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed
by a Thigh Master."
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"His thoughts tumbled
in his head, making and breaking alliances like socks in a dryer
without Cling Free."
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"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."
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"She grew on him
like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature
Canadian beef."
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"She had a deep,
throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before
it throws up."
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"Her vocabulary was
as bad as, like, whatever."
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"He was as
tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree."
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"The little boat
gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball
wouldn't."
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"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 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30."
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"Her hair glistened
in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze."
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"The hailstones leaped
from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot
grease."
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"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."
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" John and Mary had
never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never
met."
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"He fell for her
like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River."
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"Even in his last
years, Granddaddy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that
had been left out so long it had rusted shut."
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"The plan was simple,
like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just
might work."
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"The young fighter
had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while."
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"He was as lame as
a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck
that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or
something."
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"The ballerina rose
gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her,
like a dog at a fire hydrant."
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"He was deeply in
love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were
a garbage truck backing up."
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"She walked into
my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs."
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" It hurt the way
your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall."
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