“It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.” IfsDifferentEarthFallCoursesLostHoursRoomsCitiesBehindsWeekSkyStreetsWindQuietWindowMovedGlassesTrackSnowWheelsSundayPaleSaturdayCurtainsFridayLampsChillLiftingGroceriesFootsteps Book:Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia Source: Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia
“Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.” WorldShouldSaidWantedViewsClearSkyWindowBlueDespiteHeightLaddersOutside World Author:Lisa Kleypas
“The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.” IfsFeelsWritingKindPersonsMomentsLyingStarsSleepSkyMiddleEmotionalListeningDiseaseConsciousWindowVictimBlindFilledNarrativeDawnThrownBottlesAfternoonAirplaneTrappedBedroomMidnightInsomniaNeighbourCokeAmbulance Author:Michael Chabon
“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!” LooksHandsLightStarsEasySkyPositionMoonWindowAimRaisesFingersTonightVelvetAim HighDiskMoon Rise Author:Vera Nazarian
“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.” WholeFireTreeSkyWindowPityWarmthLightningThunder Book:The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Source: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
“You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?” LooksChildrenLongDoneTodayLostBornPleasureCitiesFireSkyLandGrewLuckyMy FriendsRainWindowRaisedFolksUglyBores Author:Laini Taylor
“My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.” ThinkingWorldWayWellsLooksStillsEndsWholeTurnsLostHeavenLosesTreeSkyPicksWindowShiningWhole WorldHeightApplesGrandmotherMy GrandmotherApple TreesPick Yourself UpSongbirds Author:Alice Hoffman
“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.” IfsFeelsLooksLyingCertainUniverseCompanySkyLonelinessBedWindowLook Up Author:Paulo Coelho
“Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.” KnowsWayWantLifeFirstsLooksMayFilmLife IsNightSongWaitingWalksSkyStreetsPlanetsLateSummerWindowFavorsSunsetLampsNight SkyWaiting For YouGreat FilmLate Night Author:Backseat Goodbye
“How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?” ThinkingLongEndsWaterSkyCarSummerWindowFlyingAfternoonBurnedJetDoseWhim Book:The Fortress of Solitude Source: The Fortress of Solitude