Quote by Maria Semple Download Open image ““The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us.”” — Maria Semple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I’ll miss the afternoons when I’d go out on our lawn and throw my head back. The sky in Seattle is so low, it… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“The only time it doesn't help to imagine the sky is when you're thirty thousand feet in the air with nowhere to go but… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“As he stood there the cloudy day darkened even more, the air felt heavier, the gunmetal gray sky suddenly hung low and oppressive, as… — Mark Greaney Copy Share Image
“This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“Falling through the atmosphere is not the same thing as flying down to earth. Skydivers do the former, and I did the latter.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Your eyes are a blue universe, and I’m just falling into them. No parachute. I don’t need one because I’m never going to hit… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
“But somehow, standing in the clear night air, under a sky that glowed like a shower of sparks, none of that stuff mattered. It… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head; So here upon my back I'll lie And look my… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don't realize I have someplace to be.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Just because it's complicated, just because you think you can't ever know everything about another person, it doesn't mean you can't try.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
You come out into the world after a season of TV and you're just swearing and saying mean things to people and they're looking… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Here’s something about Mom: she’s bad with annoyances, but great in a crisis. If a waiter doesn’t refill her water after she’s asked three… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Parking in Seattle is an eight-step process. Step one, find a place to park (gooood luuuuck!). Step two, back into the angled parking space… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Eleanor's heart giggled with mad abundance: so much to share, so much goodwill, so many notes to compare, so many ways to help and… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Ten years ago I saw a documentary on the siege of that Moscow theater. After just forty-eight hours of the terrorists confining the hostages… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker,… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“The sight of Elgie flat on the slimy dock, groaning "My wife, my wife", with a gun pointed at him, and me jumping up… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
