Book-quote Quote by Sian B. Claven

“suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in…

— Edna O'Brien

“Once they were sitting at the kitchen table opposite each other. To his right and to her left was a window. Furious at something…

— Michael Ondaatje

“[He] turned his back on the window, not knowing why he had gone to it, not knowing what he hoped to see, and just…

— Roberto Bolaño

“I turned away from him, the hot blood still coursing through my veins. I gripped the door handle, and it molded like dough into…

— Michael Corso

“I wrenched open the windows. I stood while the cold air poured around my face like dark water, as if I was a rock…

— Sue Woolfe

“table. He could not help seeing the dead thing. How still it was! How horribly white the long hands looked! It was like a…

— Oscar Wilde

“By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end,…

— Rebecca Makkai

“I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.”

— Anthony Liccione

“He had taken the precaution of closing the inside shutters of the only window, and his staff, though it leaned lightly on the door,…

— John Bellairs

“Even now, I hoped he would take my hand, and when he didn't, I felt my empty hand as if it were missing a…

— Jaclyn Dolamore

“I held up my glass and stared through it, where things looked as distorted as they really were.”

— Kami Garcia

“He held out the hand that wasn't holding up the blankets, palm out. 'OK,' he said. 'OK, think, Collins, think - yeah, OK, this…

— Rachel Caine