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“The stars were going out now, one by one, dropping like pennies behind the television aerials and the skylights and the washing strung between the chimneys. The sky was still dark - a sated, navy-blue woman - but the grass was jittery with the expectation of dawn.”

Stars Morning Dawn Chimneys Daybreak Skylights Television Aerials

Book:A Fine and Private Place

Source: A Fine and Private Place

“Just before she passes the harbor the sun begins to swoop down the sky, piercing holes in the clouds and forming columns of light. "Our Lord's fingers"- she suddenly recalls her mother's name for the slender rays that pierced through gray skies and reinvigorated the earth after soggy afternoons of rain. The columns melt as they reach the water, dissolving into a quivering glitter. It grows dark around her as the light is sucked into the sea; patches of pink and orange dance a few last, passionate steps across the sky. Maya remains standing as the dance keeps twirling inside her. How lovely just to stand here and let herself be overwhelmed, to let the lyrics fade and surrender to the melody.”

Light Sunset Rays Of Light In The Moment Skylights

Book:Pieces of Happiness

Source: Pieces of Happiness

“It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.”

World Enough Play Language Modern Lucky Modern World English Language Timely Skylights

Author:Bill Nighy

“And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”

Lying Poor Behinds Seeing Streets Loneliness Clouds Tiny Flying Smoke Heat Breakfast Bus Lap Frail Railway Windy Partition Lying Men Business Woman Trolleys Women Lie Skylights

Author:John Betjeman

“The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.”

Ifs Want Important Light Natural Hot Important Things Paint Oil Factors Spots Crucial Wet Bounce Skylights

Author:Pierre Coupey

“The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.”

Book Rain Clouds Flying Pleasant Tunes Shade Delicate Skylights

Book:Fugitive Poetry

Source: Fugitive Poetry

“I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.”

Want Light Morning Painting Wall Window Morning Light Skylights

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.”

Writing Walks Fiction Sun Wall Paint Bottom Shoes Clouds Corners Cups Luxury Pairs Nonfiction Writing Nonfiction Skylights

Author:Tom Robbins

“I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!”

People Humor Funny Comedy Apartment Furious Skylights

Author:Steven Wright

“White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.”

Christ White Standing Sake Sunshine Wow Flood Showers Antiques Brass Fixture Skylights

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.”

Looks Rooms Happened Doors Wave Holes Goodbye More Time Saying Goodbye Mute Craters Skylights

Book:Room: Picador Classic

Source: Room: Picador Classic

“All I know is, he found out you left and he locked himself in the shed and barricaded the door. No one's seen him since," Doug said. "When I bolted, Sean and Evan were trying to boost Caleb up onto the roof so he could look through the skylight and make sure the kid wasn't dead or something.”

Knows Trying Looks Said Kids Found Left Doors Locked Shed Roof Boost Sean Caleb Skylights

Author:Kate Brian

“He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Guy Stuff Party Crazy Mad Drinking Glasses Heavy Great Writers Drinking Party Skylights

Author:Ernest Hemingway