Window Quotes
2236 quotes by 1524 authors
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I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. But now I won't have to." "Why not?" She…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
— Haruki Murakami
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I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the…
— Annie Dillard
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Stop looking at me like that." Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied. What moment?" I asked. You're in first place," she…
— Lisa Lutz
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He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them…
— Cassandra Clare
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He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no…
— Margaret Atwood
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...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
— Virginia Woolf
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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear…
— Charles Dickens
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
— Mark Twain
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A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he…
— Maya Angelou
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I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to…
— Elizabeth Smart
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Light streamed through one of the windows and across her face and I have never seen anything or anyone so beautiful in my life. If…
— James Frey
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
— Alice Sebold
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Hale." Kat sighed. "The headmaster's car? Really? That's not to cliched for you?" What can I say?" He shrugged. "I'm an old-fashioned guy. Besides, it's…
— Ally Carter
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It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What…
— Elliot Perlman
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When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people…
— Patricia McCormick
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My favorite journey is looking out the window.
— Edward Gorey
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Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.
— Paulo Coelho
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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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