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“Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.”

Ifs Stories Wanted Three Cities Angel Window Twenties Blind Flying Grey Smog

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.”

Enough Boys Cutting Honest Window Grass Old Woman

Book:The Vincent Boys

Source: The Vincent Boys

“That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them”

Remember Loses Mines Taught Rain Window Forests Evening Remember You Remembers You Remember Me

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight.”

Faces Night Turns Stars Dark Watches Fine Moon Summer Spring Rivers Window Winter Glasses Smoke Silver Autumn Blank Curtains Palaces Mist Dusk Shutters Candlelight Moon Rise

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy!”

Looks Hands Light Stars Easy Sky Position Moon Window Aim Raises Fingers Tonight Velvet Aim High Disk Moon Rise

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I could never throw Love out of the window.”

Window

Book:Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems

Source: Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems

“She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.”

Want Cases Window Ugly Extremes Stealing Boat Shopping Far Away Canals Window Shopping

Book:City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.”

Written Doors Window

Author:Andrea Gibson

“It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over”

Letting Go Window Starting Boundaries Throwing Starting Over Unpredictability

Author:Sara Shepard

“As we seek the Lord ever more diligently, we will surely find Him. We will see clearly that the Lord does not abandon His Church or His faithful Saints. Our eyes will be opened, and we will see Him open the windows of heaven and shower us with more of His light. We will find the spiritual strength to survive even during the darkest night.”

Doe Light Eye Spiritual Night Heaven Church Lord Window Saint Faithful Abandon Showers Spiritual Strength

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.”

Ifs Mind Believe Names Wonderful Arms Intellectual Window Rounds Massive Charming Brows Great Writers Baudelaire

Author:Stephen Fry

“Please come back soon. The window is always open.”

Please Window

Author:Elizabeth Wein

“When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.”

“How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland. "Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?" Maddie laughed. "The Lost Boys give it away." Jamie studied his hands. "Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us.”

Giving Feels Home Hands Mother Lost Boys Morning Cases Gone Window Flying Laughed Peter Expecting Bedroom Darling Jamie Neverland Lost Boys

Book:Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.”

Stills Three Views Week Changed Window Coffee Noise Miserable Cop Poisonous Futuristic Stingy

Book:J. D. Robb In Death Collection

Source: J. D. Robb In Death Collection

“It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.”

Influence Strange Highest Window Trade Intellect Shops Heavenly Hung Loaded Advocating Advocacy Pistols Shop Windows

Book:Reminiscences

Source: Reminiscences

“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any”

Want Culture House Sides Freedom Feet Land Diversity Window Refuse Great Diversity Diversity Of Life Human Diversity

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.”

Whole Fire Tree Sky Window Pity Warmth Lightning Thunder

Book:The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

Source: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

“Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?”

Said Break Stones Window Tone Dry

Book:Unspoken

Source: Unspoken

“She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women?”

Men Helping Next Window Awake Threatened

Author:Kim Harrison

“Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“Darling," he said distractedly,"about the moon..." "Yes?" "I don't think it matters whether you want it or not." "What are you talking about?" "The moon. I think it's yours." Victoria yawned, not bothering to open her eyes. "Fine. i'm glad to have it." "But--" Robert shook his head. He was growing fanciful. the moon didn't belong to his wife. It didn't follow her, protect her. It certainly didn't wink at anybody. But he stared out the window the rest of the way home, just in case”

Thinking Way Want Said Matter Home Eye Talking Cases Wife Growing Fine Moon Protect Window Glad Bother Her Eyes Darling Victoria Way Home

Author:Julia Quinn

“As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.”

Knows Heart Children Father Opportunity Simple Teach Special My Heart Lessons Window Lifetime Nurse Physicians Good Health Special Places Window Of Opportunity

Author:Richard Carmona

“The eyes are the window to where the soul is supposed to be.”

Soul Eye Window Supposed To Be

Author:Tina Fey

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

Source: How to stop worrying & start living

“You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.”

Ifs World Should Doe Said Moments Mother Rooms Habit Understood Window Staring Phases Nasty Furniture Tire Couches Living Room Persian Hale Feline Monet

Author:Ally Carter

“A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.”

Years Sides Taken Conversation Window Bent Eavesdropping

Book:The Garden of Evening Mists

Source: The Garden of Evening Mists

“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”

Fit Summer Window Forgotten Breeze Summer Breeze

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.”

Doe Stills Light Water Rooms Break Window Glasses Surface Absence Evening Delicate Violet Filling Liquid Evening Light

Book:Madness: A Bipolar Life

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still...that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning.”

Stills Moments Would Be White Rooms Sun Gone Possibility Wind Window Instant Sunshine Sunday Bus Curtains Flicker Rumble

Author:Paullina Simons

“Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.”

Doubt Window Versions Gravity Invited

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.”

Trying Stills Young Courses Cutting Window Edges Insult Protest Drag

Author:Laura Moriarty

“A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.”

Littles Moments Stars Window Breathing Fairy Peter Entrances

Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“I'll be the light in the window.”

Light Window

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!”

Moving Rooms Heard Fronts Cry Window Empty Drinking Coffee Cups Ran Kitchen Bus Darling Living Room Drinking Coffee

Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.”

Knows Men Said Window Cecily Herondale

Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.”

Stars Waiting Path Window Wave Hearing Missions Violin Waiting For You

Book:The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition

Source: The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition

“Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like this: I’m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I’d never felt more godforsaken in my life. There’s a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I’m guessing that once you’ve discovered this distinction you can’t go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.”

“When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York in 1993, his belief in the 'Broken Windows' theory led him to implement the 'Zero Tolerance' crime policy. Crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years. Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Windows issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on 'All The Patriarchal Bullshit'.”

Want Feels Years Next Belief Issues Our Lives Crime Policy New York Theory Broken Ten Window Tolerance Zero Introducing Bullshit Mayors Rudy Zero Tolerance Broken Windows

Author:Caitlin Moran

“Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city, because when the day starts its business I'll have to stop, these are night-time tales that vanish in the sunlight like vampire dust”

Enough Moments Dream Light Night Cities Broken Moon Window Tales Dust Vampire Sunlight Lamps Night Time

Author:Jeet Thayil

“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”

“It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.”

People Ifs Knows World Way Feels Stories Form Conversation Ocean Window Maps Live By

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.”

People Two Parent Chance Window Connected Gazing Proximity Hitchhiking

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Mean Littles Persons Beautiful Used Song Hours Behinds Tree Mets Reflection Window Decided Glasses Staring Bedroom Just Listen

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.”

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.”

Ideas Artist Chance Effort Window Paint Guarantees Organize

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.”

World Feelings Lost Left Space Secret Understood Window Sentences Unspoken Secret Places Left Hanging

Author:Paulo Coelho

“having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.”

Thinking Way Rooms Window Discovering Think Of Me

Book:The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so much fun they should charge admission. Never fret about zigzagging back and forth through six lanes of traffic at high speeds; it erases jet lag in a split second. You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.”

Source: Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters

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