Quote by Jennifer Egan Download Open image ““They were open but empty-looking, like the windows of a house no one lived in. At”” — Jennifer Egan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening inside of them.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“the years go by, we find our doors and windows. Some are always open, some never were.” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening inside of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Strangely transparent, they seemed like windows to a world beyond, but however long I peered into there depths, there was nothing I could see.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“the houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritic hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Behind the desk was nothing but view-the whole city flung out in front of us the way street vendors fling out their towels packed… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Thousands of solar panels lift and tilt at the same time, in the same way. I clutch at Dad's arm: "Why are they doing… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The seconds pass. I know what’s going on because it’s the same thing that always happens: give me something nice, something I love or… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
