Quotes of: Room-service Keyword

I opened the window to let some fresh air into the room and was surprised to see that the rain was not just falling, but that it formed an actual wall of water, as if the whole sky were falling. While I was staring at the strange phenomenon, the form...

Elveszett lelkek

For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and th...

Giovanni's Room

What’s your rank of choice?” Juliet started, nearly spilling her cup of lemonade. “Pardon?” Drake gestured to all the other men in the room. “Every rank from a duke down to a second son who became a vicar is available for your choosing. Any...

Her Secondhand Groom

The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There one might have sat the clock round lost in...

A Room of One's Own

My brunette with the golden eyes, your ivory body, your amber Has left bright reflections in the room Above the garden. The clear midnight sky, under my closed lids, Still shines… I am drunk from so many roses Redder than wine. Leaving their garden...

Renee Vivien

My mother's outh drops. 'Emmy...don't say those things Emmy. Remember, we don't talk about those things.' 'Yes Mom. I remember. That's why I'm here, looking like this.' An orderly knocks on the door and announces that visiting time is over. My mother...

Emily Andrews

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

Catching Fire

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.

Chance

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

One has no room for vengeance,' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.

City of Stairs

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

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Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.

Doubt

There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.

Driving Mr. Dead

She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place. Luca.

Dark Heart Rising

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

Death on the Toilet

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

The Fate of Flannery Flynn

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Family Happiness

I would like to remind you, though, that the only things in your life that are irreplaceable are sitting in this room with you.

Fall from India Place

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

Franny and Zooey

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

Good Morning, Midnight