Window Quotes
2236 quotes by 1524 authors
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Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury
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Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look…
— Donald Barthelme
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Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across…
— Jenny Downham
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It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a…
— Raymond Carver
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That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.
— Dorianne Laux
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
— Raymond Chandler
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The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical…
— Alessandro Baricco
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We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get…
— Ken Kesey
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Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch…
— Cassandra Clare
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Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first…
— Marianne Wiggins
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Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is…
— Jack Gilbert
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She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece…
— Ayn Rand
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Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to…
— J D Salinger
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Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden…
— Joseph Heller
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The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender…
— Tana French
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I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with…
— Tom Robbins
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It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear…
— Sam Harris
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It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
— J D Salinger
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