Quotes of: Roomful Keyword

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

Narrator: The day before he died was Palm Sunday. And Mr. and Mrs. Howard, their two children and their cousin Charles Johnson strolled to the second Presbyterian Church to attend the 10:00 service. Bob remained at the cottage and slyly migrated from...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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.

Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas

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

In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...

Goodnight Moon

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Giovanni's Room

My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.

The Greenlanders

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

The Giver