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“Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.”

Needs Wells Looks Running Desire House Space Laughing Doors Sky Cold Involved Fit Jokes Window Blow Heat Nerves

Author:Aimee Bender

“I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise”

Hands Eye House Doors Sky Possibility Window Wide Superiors Paradise Prose Occupation Roof Everlasting Chamber Visitors Cedars

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.”

Soul Eye Faces Night Stars Christ Sun Sky Fields Flower Rivers Window Continents Cathedrals Alphabet So Sad Vowels

Author:Tad R. Callister

“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind . . . I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.”

Wanted Faces Hell Sky Wind Hair Beats Window Blue Golden Pleasant Sunshine Blue Sky Happy Day

Book:Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

“There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.”

Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

“My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.”

Night Left Sun Sky Streets Ready Window Evening Tea Seats Every Night Lamps Ladders Lanterns Tea Time

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.”

Children Earth Night Doors Sky Window Paint Curious Wander Neighborhood Purple Earth And Sky Windows And Doors

Book:Black Moods: Collected Poems

Source: Black Moods: Collected Poems

“I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.”

“From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.”

Want Looks Sometimes Cities Watches Sky Picks Window Distance Loud Scream Mystic Freeways Spires

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon”

Black Sky Moon Window Golden Honey Bowls Mellow

Book:Poems and problems

Source: Poems and problems

“Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.”

Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838

“Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.”

Looks Artist Religious Wonder Study Sky Produce Flower Praying Bird Window Green

Author:Antonin Dvorak

“If your thoughts are universal, you visit every house, every window, like the Moon on the sky!”

Ifs House Sky Moon Window Universal

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.”

People Ifs Sometimes House Water Doors Sky Building Flower Masters Moon Window Leaving Delusion Locks Zen Master

Book:Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

Source: Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

“I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.”

Ifs Men World Love Is Sky Window

Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.”

Facts Waiting Black Sky Window Proof Despite Dawn Tonight

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“The pay window will be: you can choose how and when you see, whether you see it on Comcast or Warner's Cable delivery system or Sky in the UK or you can buy it through Apple, or you might even buy it directly from the studio's site. Who knows? But that will be it. You'll go to the cinema and you'll find a way of digitally interacting with the piece; you'll either buy it or rent it or whatever.”

Knows Way Might Pay Pieces Sky Window Studios Cinema Apples Be You Site Cables Delivery Interacting

Author:Eric Fellner

“In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them.”

Want Giving Law Language Numbers Sky Century Skills Window Skins Fellows Ugly Kicks Britain Score Knives Skirts Large Numbers Vikings Pronouns Norse Scandinavia

Author:Larry Trask

“My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.”

Bigs Eye Sun Tree Sky Rain Window Blue Shining Blank Blue Eyes

Author:Al Jarreau

“The patient needs to believe that they can keep the fire while being medicated. The doctors must tell them, "I understand that you experienced something beautiful. I understand that you saw the stars pulsing spirals of fire across the sky like Van Gogh did when he was looking outside the sanitarium window. But you know what? He didn't paint ['Starry Night'] when he was manic. He painted it when he was sane because he didn't need the mania to have the magic."”

Knows Needs Believe Beautiful Night Stars Fire Saws Magic Sky Window Doctors Paint Patient Sane Vans Being Me Spirals Something Beautiful Manic Mania Starry Night

Author:Paul Dalio

“Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.”

Ifs Looks Hurt Sky Bird Window It Hurts Cages Bird Cage

Author:Klaus Kinski

“Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.”

Trying Looks Answers Nice Sky Window Blue Math Starting Over Try Again Arithmetic Blue Sky

Book:Carl Sandburg

Source: Carl Sandburg

“My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.”

Looks Lying Sky Bed Window Airplane Immense Virginia Skylines

Author:Ben Stein

“Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.”

Facts Light Black Lines Sky Broken Conscious Window Horse Drivers Tall Rays Pulling Ruined Castles Rays Of Light

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.”

Sky Cold Shots Window Gold Blue Gray

Author:J. K. Rowling

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.”

Thinking Want Looks Sometimes Stars Pleasure Grief Known Laughing Sky Crazy Sorrow My Friends Window Tricks Look Up Make Me Laugh Shabby

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.”

Sun Tree Sky Spring Window Blue

Book:Bowl of Cherries: A Novel

Source: Bowl of Cherries: A Novel

“Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.”

Looks Long Book Done Enough Lasts Lost Process Sleep Pleasure Talking Sun Gone Sky Youth Equal Window Rose Delight Dinner London Shoulders Triumph Shock Chairs Pushing Shelves

Book:Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

“When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.”

“You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.”

Years Sky Window Seven Seven Years

Author:Shannon Hale

“Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.”

Children Sky Hero Lovers Garden Window Corners Remembered Bedroom Carpet Doorways Basements Sidewalk Around The Corner Attics

Book:Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”

“She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.”

Source: Coraline

“I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. But now I won't have to." "Why not?" She asked softly. "Because I'll see the blue of your eyes instead." "How romantic you are," she murmured with a grin, kissing him gently. "But don't worry. I won't tell anyone.”

Eye Worry Sky Kissing Window Blue Why Not Glimpse Kissing Him

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky.”

People Ifs Dream Past Space Rooms Sun Doors Sky Changed Window Ceilings Blast Tilt

Author:Lorrie Moore

“The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.”

Sides Black Path Sky Mountain Window Edges Lakes Towers Castles Sparkling Narrow Path Starry Sky Turrets

Author:J. K. Rowling

“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.”

Source: Writings of Leon Trotsky: 1939-40

“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.”

Felt Gone Sky Window Uplifting Muscles Thrown Throat Peculiar Contemplating Upstairs Solemnity

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

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

Sun Sky Sitting Window Grammar Footnotes Interrupting

Author:China Mieville

“The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.”

Looks Important Faces Sides Views Cities Darkness Saws Sky Wall Kings Summer Window Towns Blue Hills Sat Valleys Roof Palaces Stairs Faded Blue Sky Framed Homesickness Far Side City Walls

Author:Megan Whalen Turner