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Quotes About Balcony

Tej glanced toward the balcony. Toward him. Toward the balcony. Toward him. Why is this a hard choice? From the hallway, a teeth-gritting mechanical whine began, as of someone cutting through an airseal door. "You can't tell me you'd rather jump off a twenty-story building and smash in your skull than marry me," Ivan went on desperately. "I am not a fate worse than death, dammit! Or at least not worse than that death, good God!
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Am avut totuÈ™i È™i o companie mai pl?cut?, a p?s?rilor alungate de frigul din munÈ›i È™i câmpii È™i care au venit s?-È™i caute hrana pe lâng? locuinÈ›ele oamenilor, duÈ™manii lor, aÈ™ezându-se în familii sau colonii pe balconul meu, unde le pun mâncare È™i ap?: dar cred c? dup? ce vremea se va înc?lzi, ele m? vor p?r?si pentru totdeauna.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Flowers grow on her tiny wrought-iron balcony, and in summer she can estimate what time of day it is by feeling how wide the petals of the evening primroses have opened.
~ Anthony Doerr
In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
~ Irvine Welsh
At the outdoor tables, the women turn their faces to the midmorning sunlight. They forget about exposure and skin cancer and just bask in the warmth, consulting their lists and staring at windows, a balcony still dripping with pink geraniums, shiny paving stones, and people going about their daily lives. They feel they are walk-ons in a play and, of course, they are, the
~ Frances Mayes
and was built into the shape of a balcony at the top, with insecure, irregular battlements, crumbling as if drawn by an anxious or careless child as they stood out, zigzag fashion, against the blue sky.
~ Franz Kafka
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
~ Ernie Pyle
The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.
~ Elena Ferrante
Le balcon s'avançait dans le vide comme le tremplin d'une piscine.
~ Elena Ferrante
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
~ John Jakes
A window across the river caught the sun as if the miracle were working, on the wrong balcony.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Turning, she saw a crow staring at her from the balcony with its beady little dark eyes. The bird flapped its silken ebony wings at her and hopped to the chair closest to the open door. Wasn't there some superstition about crows and death?
~ B.J. Daniels
Sheets and towels hung from every balcony. Washing hanging out to dry: that is the real national flag of Italy, emblem and proof of how the fabric of daily life endures.
~ Geoff Dyer
I showed him the sea. It's a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bombed there are always ruins and corpses left. But you can drop an atomic bomb in the sea and ten minutes later it's back as it was before. You can't change the shape of water.
~ Marguerite Duras
In the afternoons I would sit out on the balcony outside the dining-room; there, level with the tops of the trees that shaded the boulevard Raspail, I would watch the passers-by.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Then he stepped out on the fretted iron balcony and looked to the right, to the Place de la Concorde and the beginning of the Champs Elysees, with the Chamber of Deputies across the Seine. He was suddenly stilled, and he perceived another Paris, stately, aloof, gray with history, eternally quiet at heart for all its superficial clamor.
~ Sinclair Lewis
check the balcony to see if anyone is up
~ Barbara Freethy
e a inizio marzo splendeva già il bel tempo in città, e ogni mattina Dio srotolava un cielo talmente azzurro con certe nuvole d'ovatta candida appese in lontananza che era impossibile non ghignare di felicità e affacciarsi al balconcino o uscire in strada e resistere alla tentazione di gridargli: grazie capo, non lo dimenticheremo!
~ Enrico Brizzi
He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.
~ Graham Greene
The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. We danced in moonlight on the balcony that night, Oleg and I, and we sang and shouted and laughed, hardening ourselves to what we'd done in life, and what we'd lost. And the moon graced two fallen fools, on a fallen day, with sunlight purified by a mirror in the sky, made of stone.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
~ Pablo Neruda
Allora ti piace l'amore?" " E' pericoloso. Ci scappano ferite e poi per la giustizia altre ferite. Non è serenata al balcone, somiglia a una mareggiata di libeccio, strapazza il mare sopra, e sotto lo rimescola. Non lo so se mi piace.
~ Erri De Luca
Farewell " If I am dying, leave the balcony open. The child is eating an orange. (From my balcony, I see him.) The reaper is reaping the barley. (From my balcony, I hear him.) If I am dying, leave the balcony open.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
If I die, leave the balcony open. The little boy is eating oranges. (From my balcony I can see him.) The reaper is harvesting the wheat. (From my balcony I can hear him.) If I die, leave the balcony open!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca