Window Quotes - Page 27

• Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

  Isabel Allende

  Reading, Dark, Would Be

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• When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Doors, Up To You

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• When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

  David Mitchell

  London, Pavement, Rooms

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.44, Random House

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• When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Glasses, Doors, Broken

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• Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. "You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. "You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?" "Even now," the woman says firmly.

  Margaret Haddix

  Father, Hate, Dark

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• Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.

  Margaret Haddix

  Mother, Pain, Father

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.

  Ally Carter

  Children, Glasses, Knowing

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.

  Joey Comeau

  Girl, Kissing, Easy

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• Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

  Leon Trotsky

  Beautiful, Wall, Air

  Leon Trotsky (1977). “Writings of Leon Trotsky: 1939-40”, Pathfinder Pr

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• This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home

  Carrie Underwood

  Home, Way, Rooms

  Song: Temporary Home, Album: Play On, 2009

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• If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

  Dan Abnett

  Knowing, Firsts, Speak

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• They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Night, Shadow, Enough

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• Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Doors

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course, I still saw Edward at school, because there wasn't anything Charlie [her dad] could do about that. And then, Edward spent almost every night in my room, too, but Charlie wasn't precisely aware of that. Edward's ability to climb easily and silently through my second-story window was almost as useful as his ability to read Charlie's mind.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dad, School, Night

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• I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

  J. D. Salinger

  Phony, Holden Caulfield

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• ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Butterfly, Garden, Simple

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.57, Penguin

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• When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

  Ayn Rand

  Uplifting, Sky, Peculiar

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.713, Penguin

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• All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.

  John Green

  Book, Knowing, People

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

  China Mieville

  Sky, Sitting, Sun

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• Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Cake, House, Cottages

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• He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Night, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.

  Charles Dickens

  Hair, Foundation, Female

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.252, GENERAL PRESS

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• Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Light, Long, Understanding

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “The Birds And Other Stories”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?

  Haruki Murakami

  Dog, Loneliness, Eye

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.theguardian.com. 1999.

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• Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!” “Trap,” Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael’s arm as he walked by. “Don’t, man.” “What’s he going to do? Make faces at me?

  Rachel Caine

  Boys, Men, Doors

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.322, Penguin

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