Curtains Quote by Stella Gibbons

“Trying to divert my mind, I look around the tiny living room. The peach of the faded wall reminds me why I hate the…

— Alka Dimri Saklani

“Isa let her sewing drop. The great hooded chairs had become enormous. And Giles too. And Isa too against the window. The window was…

— Virginia Woolf

“By the end, she cleaned the house so much that she had dust in her eyes and her throat, her knees were scrapped a…

— Prerna Varma

“She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since,…

— K. Martin Beckner

“I don’t want to be left by myself in this room. The walls are too empty, there are no pictures on them nor curtains…

— Margaret Atwood

“Lovely and unremarkable, the clutter of mugs and books, the almost-empty Fig Newtons box, thick dishes in a big tin tray, the knife still…

— Marilyn Hacker

“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I left the bed as she had left it, unmade and rumpled, coverlets awry, so that her body's print might rest still warm beside…

— Pierre Louÿs

“I didn’t know how long my sisters and I lay there together, just like we had once shared that carved bed in that dilapidated…

— Sarah J. Maas

“The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah was, she…

— Jo Baker

“It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“So Ame stayed home like a good girl, and I snuck out like a bad one. I already longed for a good book and…

— Gwen Hayes