'Not Fade Away'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
::taps foot impatiently:: C'mon slackers.
"She had eyes harder than Karl Rove's heart."
"She had eyes harder than Chinese calculus." (a venerable old trope)
"She had eyes harder than an untenured English professor at a small state university." (to steal from myself)
"She had eyes harder than..."
"She had eyes harder than the ancient gum petrifying under the movie house seats."
[Dragging the concept over from Natter...]
She had eyes harder than Prince's guitar neck.
To go for the crudity . . .
She had eyes harder than what was in my pants.
Sigh.
"She had eyes harder than the Hope Diamond, and a history twice as cursed."
She had eyes harder than last year's fruitcake.
Nice one, Plei.
Thanks, Connie!
Sometimes, it's painfully obvious that I have a real addiction to mid-century pulp.
She had eyes harder than cheeks, softer than bone. What?
"She had eyes harder than the Hope Diamond, and a history twice as cursed."
Nice construction. Reminds me of the line in Ball of Fire describing a sore throat: "Red as the Daily Worker and twice as sore."