Quotes About Upstairs

As far as I'm concerned, the girl said, you can count that as a major objection to Mercerism. Her voice was clean and neutral; she intended only to state a fact, he realized. I guess I'll go back upstairs, he said

disarray, but nothing like the ones downstairs.

Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs. "What are you, security?" I call back.

Dutiful little wife," he whispered. "I'm going to be a terrible influence on you. Why don't you give me a kiss, and go upstairs for your bath? By the time you finish, I'll be there with you.

More to the point, the footman conveyed your luggage to one of the upstairs rooms, but no one seems to know which one." "Has anyone thought of asking him?" Devon suggested dryly.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

preoccupied and troubled. Upstairs they heard Jenny in her

The downstairs state of reactivity doesn't know what to do with a lot of upstairs words. Often, in moments of reactivity, nonverbals (like hugs and empathetic facial expressions) will be much more powerful.

not only is the upstairs brain under construction, but even the part of it that can function becomes inaccessible during moments of high emotion or stress.

We want to engage the upstairs brain's receptivity, rather than trigger the downstairs brain's reactivity. Then the higher parts of the brain can communicate and help override the lower, more impulsive and reactive parts.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. We finished our lunch in silence.

We adjusted our neckties, picked up our notebooks, and hotfooted it upstairs for our first conference. As we stepped off the elevator, we looked down the hall to where Rose Woods, Mrs. Eisenhower's personal maid, stood beckoning to us from the First Lady's bedroom door.

I went upstairs to my room. Momentarily I felt a sense of calm, almost acceptance. Rest beyond the river. I knew now what that meant. It meant Nothing. It meant only silence forever.

Homily would renew it at intervals when it became available upstairs, but since Aunt Sophy

She ran upstairs and grabbed her Grouchy pencil.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

hears the apartment door close, then the sound of her heels on the staircase. He stands staring at the house on television. Bill Cunningham, looking energized, says: "—movement in an upstairs window