Window Quotes - Page 13

• Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Drawing, Perfect

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.92, Ballantine Books

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• Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Running, Children, Father

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.303, Modern Library

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• But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.

  Raymond Carver

  Tears, Cold, Remember

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.179, Vintage

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• Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

  Joseph Heller

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fall, Journey, Rooms

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place among its familiar possibilities. Mother knew we would go; she encouraged us.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, Mother, Running

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• Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

  Anya Seton

  Shining, Different, Truth Is

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• Tommy had felt alone in a crowd before, even inferior to everyone in a crowd, but now he felt, well, different. It wasn't just the clothes and the make up, it was the humanity. He wasn't part of it. Heightened senses or not, he felt like he had his nose pressed against the window, looking in. The problem was, it was the window of a donut shop.

  Christopher Moore

  Clothes, Humanity, Noses

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• That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

  Raymond Carver

  Teacher, Morning, Trying

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.130, Vintage

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• God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

  Richard Yates

  God Knows, Ought, Knows

  Richard Yates (2014). “The Collected Stories of Richard Yates”, p.173, Henry Holt and Company

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• She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Eye, Thinking, Doors

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Less Than Zero”, p.118, Pan Macmillan

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• Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Wind, People, Snow

  Banana Yoshimoto (1993). “Kitchen”

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• So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.

  Steven Millhauser

  Reading, Fire, Keys

  Steven Millhauser (2007). “The King in the Tree”, p.5, Vintage

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

  Shannon Hale

  Years, Sky, Seven

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• Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.

  Louise Rennison

  Drawing, Dancing, House

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• Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Suicide, Girl Interrupted, Kitchen

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.37, Vintage

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• Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!

  Gena Showalter

  Running, Powerful, Fighting

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Animal Instincts”, p.124, Harlequin

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• And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with Hound. Hound was on his back, trying to wiggle out of the black towel Batty had tied around his neck. Batty was leaping over Hound's water bowl, shrieking, 'Blood, blood!' 'She looks all right,' he said.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Blood, Water, Black

  Jeanne Birdsall (2014). “The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The Penderwick at Point Mouette”, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)

  Katherine Paterson

  Beautiful, Passing By, Long

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• I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there." She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. "I broke my back. My spine is all wobbly now, but it doesn't hurt.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Hurt, Headache, Broke

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• A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Yellow, Shining

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• He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Clothes

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

  Thomas Harris

  Writing, Three, Staring

  "Will Hannibal the Cannibal eat Hollywood?" by Nikki Finke, www.cnn.com. June 4, 1999.

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• It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Love, Sad, Broken Heart

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• She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Archer, Eye

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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