“He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.” StillsEnoughWantedCitiesBreakWallBeatsWindowGlassesFlamesAshesConsumed Author:Nora Roberts
“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.” MindReasonMightFacesWaterAnimalSecretBehindsMillionsSeaWallCivilizationOceanWindowEmptySakeWaveDeeperSmellWideMilesHolesCellsLeapShoreHookFragmentsCliffsDon't TrustLureFling Author:Tana French
“Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.” WantYearsMatterHouseDarkRoomsWallLowsWindowWake UpTinyCollectivesThickCeilingsSeattleSleepyTranceCraftsman Author:Maria Semple
“My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open my windows and put my head on my pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak. There would be raindrops blown onto my face, too, if I was lucky, and I would imagine that I was in my boat on the ocean and that it was swaying with the swell of the sea. I did not imagine that I was a pirate, or that I was going anywhere. I was just on my boat.” IfsFeelsHardWould BeEyeFacesNightSleepImagineTreeSeaWindWallLuckyBedOceanWindowBoatImagine ThatPillowPirateRainyRaindropsSwayingRainy Night Author:Neil Gaiman
“Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.” WorldLightSpiritualHouseVoiceDarkPrayerWallColdWindowOur WorldCurtainsPresence Of GodInvoke Book:Max on Life: Discovering the Power of Prayer: Discovering the Power of Prayer Source: Max on Life: Discovering the Power of Prayer: Discovering the Power of Prayer
“I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.” DiesWishFeltSilenceBeautyMorningGrowingWallSummerGardenWindowEternityGreenRoseCupsBeauty Of LifeFloweringWish To DieGreen Things Author:A. L. Rowse
“To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.” FactsScienceHouseWallKeysWindowRoundsWanderNow And ThenPeepingWandering Aimlessly Author:Julian Huxley
“I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils!” ScienceResultsWallLateExpectationsBuiltWindowCurrentsExperimentsEveningBiographiesExplosionsSpectacularLiquidHydrogenGreat ExpectationsPioneering Author:Nicholas Kurti