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Quotes About Window

Se me partía el corazón, así que en un descuido de Tata María abrí la ventana y temblando de frío, o quien sabe de qué, grité: —¡Espérame, Gavrila, espérame…! Y me esperó tanto que todavía está ahí, con su mano levantada, saludándome. En ese tiempo, en ese lugar indefinible donde se guarda lo más profundo y, quizá, lo más inexplicable de la memoria.
~ Ana María Matute
Biodiversity decline can certainly be self-reinforcing, with inbuilt tipping points and deadlines: the Pike paper estimates that business-as-usual closes the 'window of opportunity to deal with pandemics' in 2041.
~ Andreas Malm
Lizzy stepped back and noticed that each quilt block appeared to have been placed inside of a window frame. It made her think about how every window on earth had a different view—and that outside of every window was a world of possibilities.
~ Ricky Tims
Nexus I wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantis rubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass, begging vacantly with pale eyes; and the commas leapt at me like worms or miniature scythes blackened with age. the praying mantis screeched louder, his ragged jaws opening into formlessness. I walked outside; the grass hissed at my heels. Up ahead in the lapping darkness he wobbled, magnified and absurdly green, a brontosaurus, a poet.
~ Rita Dove
Through the window the sun was shining like a beacon, nearly blinding her just as her parents lies had.
~ Rita Herron
Opening a window to let out a fly and ending up with thirty midges, three wasps, two bees and an owl.
~ Rob Temple
One evening in our bedroom, with Dominique asleep and me up watching TV, I was startled by a bird flying manically around the room. After a moment I realized it wasn't a bird at all—it was a bat. I'd duck every time it flew over the bed, trying to figure out what to do. Eventually I crawled along the floor to the wall and opened a window, and it flew right out. The
~ Robbie Robertson
O Mary, at thy window be!It is the wish'd, the trysted hour.
~ Robert Burns
Looking out from his window, he felt he had been granted a glimpse of a great truth, one that had been whispering at his conscience for many years: that God was not to be pressed into service merely to suit the needs of men, however righteous they believed their cause to be; that such presumption was itself a sin. He felt both despair and a bitter vindication.
~ Robert Harris
Thom smiled back almost as unsteadily; he looked as if he was contemplating a leap from the window.
~ Robert Jordan
Anne was kneeling at the west gable window watching the sunset sky that was like a great flower with petals of crocus and a heart of fiery yellow.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The dove sits on the window frame. And Vera, our mother, just lies there like that, her cheek against the floor, her dress in her mouth and her hand full of blood, as a beam of sunlight slowly passes over her.
~ Lars Saabye Christensen
The silvery aura from the window fell across his face, lighting a translucent, pale fire in his gray eyes. She could identify no telltale trace of humor or mockery in his features. There was simply his austere male beauty, that sullen perfection marred only by the little scar across his left eyebrow, which showed more clearly in the thin winter light.
~ Laura Kinsale
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The chamber-maid had left no ******* *** under the bed:—Cannot you contrive, master, quoth Susannah , lifting up the sash with one hand, as she spoke, and helping me up into the window seat with the other,—cannot you manage, my dear, for a single time to **** *** ** *** ******?
~ Laurence Sterne
Si la instalación de la ventana de Momo en el pecho del hombre, de acuerdo con la corrección propuesta por aquel archicrítico, hubiera tenido lugar[134],——primero: sin duda alguna habría sucedido el siguiente desatino:—que hasta los más sabios y serios de todos nosotros habríamos tenido que pagar, en una u otra moneda, impuestos de ventana[135] todos y cada uno de los días de nuestra vida.
~ Laurence Sterne
She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.
~ Laurie Lee
Caricatures, a coffee house on Macdougal with a batch of caricatures in the window, along with a signed note from Maxwell Bodenheim, the archetypical Village bohemian who'd been murdered a few years earlier.
~ Lawrence Block
while all of this was going on, a man's face, a slight caricature of the artist as a young voyeur, loomed in a window over the bed and leered down at the two girls. The caption read, "What do they know about love uptown?" That's an old and not very funny joke, and if you don't already know it you're not going to read it here, because it's a bore. But it does fit the circumstances well enough.
~ Lawrence Block
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
~ William Shakespeare
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
~ C. F. Powell
For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.
~ Steven Magee
This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dad's SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window." The memory brought a smile to my face.
~ Darynda Jones
A smile is the light in the window that others say that there is care, and sharing person inside.
~ sandy Khoury