Perfect Sentences all around

I love this sentence. It describes how a man's children respond when they hear him coming home:

The children would all rush off like water down the sink.

It's from an adult book called THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN by Christine Stead. Here's another sentence I read years ago and still remember:

He stood up like a struck match.

That's from THE BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zuzak.

Perfect sentences are everywhere. I keep meaning to write down each and every one and, more often than not, forget.