English: Real Essay Quotes

2002 GCSE English: Real Essay Quotes

Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.

Mc Murphy fell twelve stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.

The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds, which had also never met.

The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the interview portion of Family Fortunes.

The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.

The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for while.

She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.