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Quotes About Room

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.
~ Sara Gruen
I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.
~ Sarah Dessen
Adam picks up the camera] I have to get a shot of this. The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanying utterances, though, were varied. I heard everything from Please no (Maggie), to Jesus Christ (Wallace), to Stop it or die (I'm assuming it's obvious).
~ Sarah Dessen
It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost redundant. And yet, there was a comfort in being no question, no room for doubt.
~ Sarah Dessen
It wasn't morning. The room was dark, with the moon big and yellow and hanging just where I'd left it in the corner of the window.
~ Sarah Dessen
Maybe in Smithville a room filled with books is called a media room, but it smells just like the library in my old, normal school. Musty. Dusty. Papery.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Oh!" Karimah says. "It's one minute to midnight. You and Jonah and Prince had better hurry to the room of mirrors. One, two —
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind
~ Scott Lynch
The beauty of the world…has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (part 3, Pretties)
~ Scott Westerfeld
But all the while, in the back of his mind, he carried around the memory of the eerie scene that had been played before his eyes in that dark back room in the Fitzwilliam Inn.
~ John Bellairs
You can put your principles into a match-box but what fills the whole room is your instinctive responses.
~ John Berger
Although it was cold out, he opened the window slightly because the room smelled of sleep. The action dislodged something red and black from the frame
~ John Connolly
The room stank like the scene of a gunfight, so I opened the window and let the hot New Orleans air slip heavily into the room like a clumsy burglar.
~ John Connolly
Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
~ John Donne
Someday, sir," Tibbs said "I want to investigate a murder done in an English country house over the weekend with only six persons present and the outside roads impassable because of a sudden storn and flood. One where the victim is found in a locked room with an arrow through his heart and there isn't any question of multiple assault or lack of premeditation.
~ John Dudley Ball
and go look and see the book was missing from that back room.
~ John Dunning
Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.
~ Kiran Desai
In my new life, no room for a lost boy.
~ Tori Amos
I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.
~ Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
~ Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
~ Aaron Sorkin
There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.
~ Alice Cary
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
~ Augusten Burroughs
the ability to allow or even make room for reactivity in the other, without reciprocating, creates the best chance that both partners can go on to their next relationships with the least amount of emotional baggage.
~ Edwin H. Friedman