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Quotes About Window

When we got to her doorway, she turned quickly and kissed my cheek. Good night, Charlie. I'm glad you called me. I'll see you at the lab. She closed the door and I stood outside the building and looked at the light in her apartment window until it went out. There is no question about it now. I'm in love.
~ Daniel Keyes (author)
A window opening on nothing but the blank sky was endlessly attractive to me…. A window that looked out into a tree was a source of inexpressible happiness…
~ Wendell Berry
And I have dreamed of the morning coming in like a bird through the window not burdened by a thought, —Wendell Berry, from "The Design of The House: Ideal and Hard Time," New Collected Poems (Counterpoint Press, 2012)
~ Wendell Berry
I turned towards the garden when the door had closed on her. Miss Halcombe was standing with her hat in her hand, and her shawl over her arm, by the large window that led out to the lawn, and was looking at me attentively.
~ Wilkie Collins
the window, turned back again into the room
~ Wilkie Collins
She told him that every ring in the window for sale was a tale of woe, a ductile band of happiness that had been shaped easily into sorrow
~ Will Self
NANTUCKET Flowers through the window lavender and yellow changed by white curtains? Smell of cleanliness? Sunshine of late afternoon? On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying?And the immaculate white bed
~ William Carlos Williams
They have thundered past now and crashed silently on into the dusk; night has finally come. Yet he still sits at the study window, the street lamp at the corner flickers and glares, so that the bitter shadows of the unwinded maples seem to toss faintly upon the August darkness.
~ William Faulkner
Angie called pause again, rose from the bed, went to the window. She felt an elation, an unexpected sense of strength and inner unity.
~ William Gibson
Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.
~ China Mieville
The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.
~ Chris Bachelder
Me and Nkiruka, we watched through the window until the moon grew an extraordinary size, so big that it filled the window frame. We could see the face of the man in the moon, so close that we could see the madness in his eyes.
~ Chris Cleave
I can move to the window and see the sky and the clouds above the tall old trees of the park as much as I want. That is the advantage of being alive; maybe not a great advantage, but still.
~ Christa Wolf
Ich kann mich ans Fenster stellen und über den alten großen Parkbäumen den Himmel sehen und Wolken, so­viel ich will. Das ist der Vorteil, wenn man lebt, vielleicht kein sehr großer Vorteil, aber immerhin.
~ Christa Wolf
It was pouring earlier, great sheets of rain, and now the clouds outside the window are crystal tipped, like mountain peaks in the sky, rays emanating downward like an illustration in a children's bible.
~ Christina Baker Kline
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~ Heinrich Boll
writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window.
~ Helen Macdonald
The stormy night turned the window of Lucy's room into a door;
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Insofar as a purely transient construction of flesh and blood can remember (or foretell) what it is to be stone, Lucy understood the mountain's wish to listen at the window of a den of gamblers and be warmed by all that free-floating hope and desolation.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
On the wall of time to come a window appears. I open it, let angels in.
~ Helene Cardona
a fresh spiderweb billowing like a spinnaker across the open window and here he is the little master sailing by on a thread of milk wish me luck admiral I haven't finished anything in a long time
~ Leonard Cohen
I went to the window and looked out over the mounds of snow, wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice and then go back and do it again.
~ Leslie Feinberg
Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?
~ Lev Grossman
The flaming ruins of a five-alarm sunset smoldered in the window behind her, which was currently pointing west. "It
~ Lev Grossman