“A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.” WorldKindEarthGirlRoomsNumbersBuildingCreaturesWindowWaveSeekingForestsShipsPrisonerVoidTowersFrailTapestrySlitsFill The Void Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.” IfsShowsWishRoomsTvsWindowParisHotelTowersTv ShowsEgyptGarbageMonumentPyramidsAlleysHotel RoomsEiffel TowerEiffelDumpstersBack Alleys Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.” BookRoomsTowersShelvesCeilingsPosters Author:Megan Crane
“The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.” WorldHeartDoeWarRoomsDestinySunQuietOfficeAdvantageLibraryCommandBoardsAfternoonRetiringTowersDispositionRetreatIvoryOvalIvory TowerFaint Of HeartQuiet RoomAfternoon Sun Book:The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader Source: The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader