Window Quotes - Page 35

• Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know what you’ll learn when you open one. And if it’s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.

  Wendy Mass

  Book, Fall, Stories

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• You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crazy, Demon, Invites

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Eye, Men

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• What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

  J. D. Salinger

  Suicide, Stupid, Jumping

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he and Kat had last used in Monte Carlo. Hale smiled a little, realizing he hadn’t worn the tux in ages. It was just one of many ways his life had change in the years since a girl named Katarina Bishop crawled into his window and into his life." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Phones, Years

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• The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.

  Ally Carter

  Fixed, Uncle Eddie, Concerned

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• I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of you. But, you know, I started writing songs by myself. I didn't really have a co-writer, besides my dad. When I see a record and it has a song on it that someone wrote [alone], I just really believe in them as a writer. I feel like it's a window into them, more than it is if you write a song with someone else.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Dad, Believe

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• She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hate, Faults, Sat

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.229, Bantam

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• Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Reflection, Shadow, Wonder

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• There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Home

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• I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Hair, Jasmine

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• I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

  Maureen Johnson

  Sorry, Rain, Bothering You

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• I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Music, Summer, Order

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The sun shines through the window And the sun shines through your hair It seems like you're beside me But I know that you're not there. You would sit beside this window Run your fingers through my hair You were always there beside me But I know that you're not there Oh, to be by your side once again Oh, to hold your hand in mine again Oh, to be by your side once again Oh, to hold your hand in mine again-

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Hair, Hands

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.24, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Rain, Fall, Sleep

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Joy, Bourgeois

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• ...In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when she woke up screaming for Will, he came and put his arms around her, smelling of turpentine. "The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Sleep, Night

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• People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Wall, Ocean, Inspiration

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• We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Arrows, Allies

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.135, Penguin

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• ..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Fall, Heart, Wind

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.

  John Keats

  Home, Kissing, Yesterday

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Two, Twenties

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• Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Children, Writing, Window To The Soul

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• She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reflection, Moments, Shops

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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