Quotes of: Like-a-duck Keyword

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

The Complete Poems

When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.

Cowboys Don't Sing

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

The Comeback Season

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

There is beauty that soothes like the warm kiss of the spring sun upon the cheek, and then there is beauty that terrifies, like the cry of Ozymandias, inviting despair.

The Curse of the Wendigo

THIS IS A COMPLIMENT? You're incrediburgable she said which is to say You're a little like incredible but a lot more like a hamburger.

Charting New Waters

Comment sections on the internet are like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like gibberish and it's ugly to look at.

Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

Comment sections on the internet is like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like nonsense and it's ugly to look at.

Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

Dream Caster

There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.

Driving Mr. Dead

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

The Dragon's Path/Leviathan Wakes

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

And Mom doesn't like anyone cutting her flowers, so I cut up her magazines instead. Do you like it?

Ethan, Who Loved Carter

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

East of Eden

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Ender's Game

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Eat, Pray, Love

Sometimes, it seemed like she was trying to hide everything that was pretty about her. Like she wanted to look ugly.

Eleanor & Park

The only reason I'm friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austrian at a time.

Eyes Like Stars