Curtained Window Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room. And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up, and look across the gardens, lawns, greenhouses, sheds and curtained windows. I wanted my life to begin now, at this instant, just when I was ready for it. — Hanif Kureishi

Is ignoring me supposed to endear you to me somehow?"

"No. That's the job of my thighs and my get-lost-in-them-forever dreamy eyes." He leaned in even closer and blinked his eyes several times. "Mesmerizing, aren't they?"

Irene couldn't hold it back anymore. It flooded out of her and she couldn't stop it. Even when everyone turned and stared at her, including Jackie and Paul, she couldn't stop. And she tried.

Because laughing this much really would only exacerbate his ego even more. — Shelly Laurenston

Im the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos — Earl Sweatshirt

You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight. — Seth Rogen

It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes. — Alice Walker

We have been going over the proposal and possible concessions for the longest ninety minutes of my life. And I saw Battlefield Earth. — Qwen Salsbury

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one. — George Bernard Shaw

Today I'm going ... but one day I'll back to prove myself, who I'm ... — Adeel Ahmed

On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop. — Woody Harrelson

Chance is a nickname for Providence. — Nicolas Chamfort

Of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your sleep tonight. And you too, Abdullah. — Khaled Hosseini

Everything was comfortable, tasteful, as if the apartment were for lounging and nights by the fire. And there were so many books - on shelves, on the tables by the couch, stacked beside the large armchair before the curtained floor-to-ceiling window spanning the entire length of the great room.
Smart. Educated. Cultured, if the knickknacks were any indication. There were things from across kingdoms, as if she'd picked up something everywhere she went. The room was a map of her adventures, a map of a whole different person. Aelin had lived. She'd lived, and seen and done things. — Sarah J. Maas