Attic Quotes
82 quotes by 74 authors
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'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night…
— Rob Sheffield
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An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend…
— Sting
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
— James Thurber
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You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!
— Alex Trebek
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So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them…
— John Steinbeck
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In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in…
— Anne Rice
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Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele…
— James Thurber
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The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
— Martin Buber
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I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it…
— Claudia Gray
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Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him.…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that…
— Rick Riordan
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He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in…
— Cassandra Clare
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We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three.
— Virginia C. Andrews
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Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Christian stretched out beside her and pulled her close. ʺBut for what itʹs worth, I think youʹd be a great queen too, Princess Dragomir.ʺ ʺYouʹre…
— Richelle Mead
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What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to…
— Francine Prose
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•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its…
— Gustave Flaubert
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It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who…
— Melina Marchetta
Who Wrote These Attic Quotes
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