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Quotes About Room

How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I enjoyed introspection, shrouded myself in cogitation; with what rapture did I listen for the rustling of frail insects in the thickets of my nerves!
~ Yukio Mishima
History is a record of destruction. One must always make room for the next ephemeral crystal. For history, to build and to destroy are one and the same thing.
~ Yukio Mishima
I can't reach the stirrups," Abigail said. "Don't need to. Scoot forward and make room." He put his foot in the stirrup. "For what?" Swinging his leg over, he settled behind Abigail. "Oh." She squirmed forward, but only got so far. She finally settled in the cradle of his thighs in a way he found most disturbing.
~ Denise Hunter
dining room. On Sunday, supper was eaten early
~ Denise Kiernan
Even rich people can only stand in one room at a time.
~ Denise Mina
No matter where you're in the world, and regardless of the seasons, the temperature inside your room is always the room temperature.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
space, I think, will give us enough room to tilt the engine sufficiently to get at the camshaft
~ Jeffrey Rothfeder
When I'd first brought it home from the thrift store, I'd planned to keep it in the closet I shared with Summer, But Jordis asked me to hang it in full view of the room because she liked the glitter.
~ Jennifer Echols
Uhhhhh." Without answering,I turned and hurried toward the back of the room, eaving around bodies on yoga mats in the center of the polished wood floor, thinking unkind thoughts about well-meaning old people who wanted to push me into being successful.
~ Jennifer Echols
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.
~ Jennifer Echols
They're taking us to the room to change. Do you think we'll have time for a quickie? Because we never got around to doing it against the wall." He blinked at her. She thought he hadn't heard her. Finally he smiled, slowly at first, his grin becoming broader as she slid her hand onto his thigh. "We will always make time for a quickie," he said. "And that is a wedding vow.
~ Jennifer Echols
How do you know a gangster?" "Usually, the room goes a little quiet when he walks in.
~ Jennifer Egan
And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
~ Jennifer Egan
Trivial, yes. But I was aiming for the mirrored room. There was nothing more essential in the world; nothing that failed, when placed beside it, to disappear completely.
~ Jennifer Egan
Sasha looked at the windowpane, rinsed continually with rain, smearing lights in the falling dark. She lay with her body tensed, claiming the couch, her spot in this room, her view of the window and the walls, the faint hum that was always there when she listened, and these minutes of Coz's time: another, then another, then one more.
~ Jennifer Egan
He listened for muddiness, the sense of actual musicians playing actual instruments in an actual room. Nowadays that quality (if it existed at all) was usually an effect of analogue signaling rather than bona fide tape—everything was an effect in the bloodless constructions Bennie and his peers were churning out.
~ Jennifer Egan
I'm Chase." he said. "Kind of an ironic name for a werewolf." The observation slipped easily off my tongue. The boy didn't blink. In fact, I was beginning to doubt that he'd blink once since I'd come into the room. "Werewolves do a lot of chasing." I explained. "And your name is Chase. Hee.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Are we still tying bows?" Sadie-Grace sounded hopeful as she sat down beside me at the senator's dining room table. "I only have three things in life that I am truly gifted at, and one of them is tying bows." I shoved the basket I was currently working on in her direction. "Have at it." Sadie-Grace studied my work and got very quiet for a moment. "Sawyer," she said morosely, "what did this cellophane wrap ever do to you?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
You can't be serious." I turned to face Lily. She was standing in the doorway to my room. The expression on her face could not have been more horrified if I'd declared my allegiance to a religious sect that didn't believe in wearing clothes, only snakes.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The word wrath jumped out at me. I thought about the alcohol and drugs we'd found in Toby's room. I thought about the fire on Hawthorne Island and the way the press had lauded Toby as such an outstanding young man.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I love the world that is my room.
~ Jennifer Niven
Sweet hours have perished here; This is a mighty room; Within its precincts hopes have played,— Now shadows in the tomb.
~ Emily Dickinson
When Jack just rescued her Ma's, just succeeded doing the Great Escape: Want to go to Bed. They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while. No. Bed . You mean in Room? Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes. Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
~ Emma Donoghue
Want to go to Bed. They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while. No. Bed. You mean in Room? Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes. Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
~ Emma Donoghue