Light Quote by Veronica Roth

“I don’t know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep—like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee.”

— Veronica Roth

“The room smelled of children, that sunlight smell over socks and sweat.”

— Marcus Sakey

“We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a…

— Ian McEwan

“The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room,…

— Anthony Doerr

The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The room I got is best described as being a glorified closet. It was like four times worse than what they gave you here…

— Adam Rapp

“It rattled into the station like it was coming from another century. The interior lights cast a half-hearted glow over the nocturnal flotsam in…

— Amor Towles

“You're not very fond of your room by day. You never think about it. You're in and out, the door opens and slams, the…

— Katherine Mansfield

“ceiling in the faint glow of the street light that filtered through the curtains and the nightlight that shined through the open bathroom door. …

— Brian Harmon

“It’s like you walk into a dark room, and there’s a sliver of pale light under a doorway on the opposite side. You open…

— Ben H. Winters

“The salty, slightly stagnant smell of the marsh filled my nose. On the other side of the bed, a French door opened to what…

— Anonymous

“The sun filters through the closed curtains like urine.”

— Michael Gira