Window Quotes
2236 quotes by 1591 authors
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Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never…
— Sarah Dessen
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I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over,…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.…
— Louisa May Alcott
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She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being…
— Maureen Johnson
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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view…
— Patti Smith
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Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine…
— Alain de Botton
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a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than…
— Ted Kooser
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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the…
— Italo Calvino
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I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an…
— Holly Black
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... But I'm annoying you to no purpose with my arguments. A person whose house is only open on the west can't see the sun…
— Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
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And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?
— Patrick deWitt
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I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
— Michel Foucault
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Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.
— Richard Wilbur
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we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her…
— Margaret George
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All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about…
— Fernando Pessoa
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