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Quotes About Ceiling

Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing like a rubber ball from now to then to back again. ... In the traumatic universe the basic laws of matter are suspended: ceiling fans can be helicopters, car exhaust can be mustard gas.
~ David J. Morris
Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars.
~ Colton Dixon
I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!
~ Steven Wright
I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
~ Jenny Downham, Before I Die
There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.
~ Alex Garland
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.
~ Alexandra Ivy
Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)
~ Alexandra Ivy
While I'd like to be able to simply do all of my financings with a handshake or, possibly, on a napkin written in crayon, I also wish I had a herd of unicorns surrounded by rainbows, a balanced U.S. government budget, and agreement on how to address the debt ceiling issue.
~ Brad Feld
Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.
~ Toks Olagundoye
Only half-aware of the movements of his body, she turned her head to one side and stared up at the ceiling, where she noticed a spider's web.
~ Alifa Rifaat
Ã…Å¡mierci przyjrzaÅ'am siÄ™ z bliska: Å›mier? to byÅ' sufit. Gdy zna siÄ™ sufit lepiej od siebie samej, to siÄ™ nazywa Å›mier?. Sufit jest tym, co przeszkadza oczom patrze? w górÄ™, a myÅ›lom wzlatywa? w przestworza.
~ Amelie Nothomb
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
~ Roald Dahl
old girl's head went through the ceiling as though it were butter.
~ Roald Dahl
It seemed to be suspended by some invisible thread, like a toy bird hanging from the ceiling.
~ Roald Dahl
I IS MAKING MYSELF A MARVELUS PAIR OF SUCTION BOOTS AND WHEN I PUT THEM ON I IS ABEL TO WALK STRATE UP THE KITSHUN WALL AND ACROSS THE CEILING. WELL, I IS WALKING UPSIDE DOWN ON THE CEILING WEN MY BIG SISTER COMES IN AND SHE IS STARTING TO YELL AT ME AS SHE ALWAYS DOES, YELLING WOT ON EARTH IS YOU DOING UP THERE WALKING ON THE CEILING AND I LOOKS DOWN AT HER AND I SMILES AND I SAYS I TOLD YOU YOU WAS DRIVING ME UP THE WALL AND NOW YOU HAS DONE IT.
~ Roald Dahl
Lucy blew me a kiss and hung up and I lay back on the kitchen floor with the phone on my stomach, grinning at the ceiling. The cat stopped purring and came closer to stare into my face. He looked concerned. Maybe he didn't know I was grinning. Maybe he thought I was dying of some sort of hideous facial stricture. Is that possible? Death by grinning. I said, "She's coming to see us.
~ Robert Crais
Pike knew something was wrong. The tension in Cole's body was as obvious as a corpse hanging from the ceiling. Cole was pretending to be fine for the girl.
~ Robert Crais
Then she realizes the letters are Russian. There is a deserted bird's nest in one corner and a bat hanging upside down in another corner, where the wall meets the low ceiling. Laila closes her eyes and sits there awhile.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Muttering about caves, Jenks came in with my suitcase, his eyes roving the low ceiling. He dropped my bag by the door, tossed me the keys to the van, and headed out, flicking the light switch several times because he could.
~ Kim Harrison
Inside the half-basement, they found Wroth alongside Garreth, grappling to hold up the ceiling. The vampire's voice was incongruously calm when he asked, What kind of idiot would find this a worthy plan?
~ Kresley Cole
Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.
~ Kristin Hannah
When I mentioned my early morning waking to the old witch down the street, she explained that this is the time the "ceiling is the thinnest," the moment that the earth's creatures have the greatest access to the heavens... It is a magical time, or so she said.
~ Dee Williams
Fearless the cobweb swings from the ceiling
~ Emily Dickinson
The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be Who do we hate?, he thought, it really should be whom, but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.
~ Eoin Colfer