Top 100 Quotes About The Ceiling

#1. Started underneath the floor,
Now my money through the ceiling.

Wiz Khalifa

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#2. I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess with their ability to pull themselves together." "Is that so? Now you're the expert on ghost prevention?" "I guess so. It worked.

Rhonda Hughes

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#3. Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford."
"Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women - changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.

Cinda Williams Chima

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#4. Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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#5. There was a much smaller room on the other side. It was merely the size of, say, a cathedral. And it was lined floor to ceiling with more hourglasses that Susan could just see dimly in the light from the big room. She stepped inside and snapped her fingers.

Terry Pratchett

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#6. I shook my head, and his eyes traveled up my wall to the ceiling. I could almost see the wheels spinning inside his head. "What are you up to?" I asked, narrowing my eyes.

"I'm trying to think of another bet.

Jamie McGuire

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#7. The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.

Eoin Colfer

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#8. I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.

Deborah Meyler

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#9. My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.

Ronee Blakley

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#10. The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.
The suspended body; a harbinger of good news.
Love was lost.
Love was found.

Chirag Tulsiani

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#11. Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there it goes taking away the darkness!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#12. Water stains like liver spots dotted the floors, ceiling, and walls while the smell of warm wood rot hung in the air thick like an old whore's perfume.

Matt Abraham

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#13. Their gowns and masks look lovely." "Not as lovely as yours," Jorgen said without hesitating. Her heart seemed to fly out of her chest and soar around the arched ceiling of the ballroom of Thornbeck Castle. Jorgen Hartman, rescuer of damsels in peril, might . . . perhaps . . . love her. But

Melanie Dickerson

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#14. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

Laura Kightlinger

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#15. We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

Mark Zandi

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#16. Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

Kristin Hannah

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#17. The Devil ... clutched hold of the miserable young man ... and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

Martin Luther

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#18. Did you know your hair is just precisely the same shade as a teak inlaid ceiling in a monastery I once stayed at

Stephenie Meyer

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#19. Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling, Lady Butler contemplated, How odd it is that a room filled with millions of words can be so silent.

Lance Taubold

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#20. I'm so jealous," she whispered, and he blinked. "Of what?" Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at the ceiling with the saddest eyes he'd ever seen. "You're so alive, Lore. There's fire in you. A will to live, when all I want is to be done with this life.

Larissa Ione

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#21. Jesus Christ," he muttered to the ceiling. "All those times I sat in the office and laughed my ass off at stories of Lee, Eddie, Hank and Vance. They should have fuckin' medals.

Kristen Ashley

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#22. For a long moment, he lay there, staring at a minuscule crack that had begun to reach from one end of the ceiling to the other. Cracks were always there; no matter how well repaired, there would always be weakness.

S.E. Jakes

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#23. The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.

Don DeLillo

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#24. One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.

T. Harv Eker

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#25. Lucus?
She found him on the bed in the master suite, lying with his arms crossed behind his head, glaring at the ceiling as though it had done him wrong in some way.

Sarah Mayberry

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#26. So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

Sara Bareilles

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#27. -I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels.
-What levels?
-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.

Tadeusz Konwicki

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#28. When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.

Mike Turner

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#29. When I had woken up the next morning, I'd stared at my ceiling for a good ten minutes, reliving the dream, committing it to memory ... wishing it was real, wishing I could crawl back inside that dream and disappear
stay there forever.

S.C. Stephens

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#30. Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#31. Her eyes
lined with black makeup
stared blankly at the ceiling; and her tan was obviously sprayed on since her skin had a healthy apricot glow even though the top of her head was missing.

Donna Tartt

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#32. With the rain falling
surgically against the roof,
I ate a dish of ice cream
that looked like Kafka's hat.
It was a dish of ice cream
tasting like an operating table
with the patient staring
up at the ceiling.

Richard Brautigan

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#33. Carrie lay on the bed and gazed at the ceiling. She was back in business. It was a day to remember. December 7, the same day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day America declared war on Japan.
America declared war. And she was a whore again.

Jackie Collins

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#34. Tam knew what I was saying. He stared at me, his expression unreadable. "I need you to support the ceiling above the tear I'm going to make."
"Yeah, yeah. I got it. You pull; I push. Let's go!"
"I need control and delicacy, Raine."
I snorted. "Too bad you're stuck with me.

Lisa Shearin

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#35. She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.

P.G. Wodehouse

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#36. I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall.

Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud

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#37. She rolls onto her back and looks up at the dark ceiling, at the tiny speck of orange light leaking through the curtains from the streetlamp outside, and she tries to decide. "Are

Nick Alexander

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#38. It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.

Caitlin Moran

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#39. The higher up I hold it, the less painful the hot wax." ... "Try hanging off the ceiling and dropping it from there.

Barbara Elsborg

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#40. The ceiling is not a good limit;
it prevents you from reaching the sky.
The sky is not a favorable limit;
it hinders you from reaching the stars.
The stars are not an acceptable limit;
they impede you from reaching the edge of the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Quotes About The Ceiling #137181
#41. If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?

Mike Royko

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#42. In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or roof planes or a quantity of space displaced by the mass of the building.

Francis D.K. Ching

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#43. I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

Kelly Batten

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#44. I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds.

Jack Kerouac

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#45. I only snatched him to get your attention," I said. "Now that I've got it, this is what I want."
"Damn my dame!" Al shouted, hands raised to the ceiling. "I knew it! Not another list!

Kim Harrison

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#46. She had met the man who was now her husband. He was seven foot three, and she was six foot two and a quarter. It was a match made perhaps not in heaven but certainly nearer the ceiling.

Jasper Fforde

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#47. When I mentioned my early morning waking to the old witch down the street, she explained that this is the time the "ceiling is the thinnest," the moment that the earth's creatures have the greatest access to the heavens... It is a magical time, or so she said.

Dee Williams

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#48. The man on the ceiling casts shadows of flesh, and sometimes the shadows take on lives of their own.

Melanie Tem

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#49. The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.

Pawan Mishra

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#50. The debt ceiling is not what causes our problems, it's the only thing that might help solve our problems.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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#51. Crazy? try ceiling-licking, rabies-frothing, dish-ran-away-with-the-spoon-in-fucking-sane.
Thanatos

Larissa Ione

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#52. Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

Shonda Rhimes

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#53. Then she stretches her legs
toward the ceiling,
aiming for the sky
My sister doesn't know
that I've already been there

Kelsey Sutton

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#54. There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

Juice Newton

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#55. Quentin looked curiously around. "This is a neat room," he said.

"Yes, it is," I replied, directing my compliment toward the distant ceiling. Everyone deserves a few compliments. Even a building.

Seanan McGuire

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#56. I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

Andrew Solomon

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#57. The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

Indra Nooyi

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#58. Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

Helen Clark

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#59. her mother had never done what was expected of her, had seemed determined to ignore proprieties. In so doing she had broken the glass ceiling. And it was not all that she had broken.

Brian McGilloway

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#60. I thought ( ... ) the proverbial glass ceiling had been cracked ( ... ) and I believed that it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles.

Sheryl Sandberg

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#61. Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell.

V.E Schwab

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#62. Above,the fair hall-ceiling stately set Many an arch high up did lift,And angels rising and descending met With interchange of gift.

Alfred Tennyson

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#63. The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

Charles Schumer

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#64. He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

Charles Dickens

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#65. He looked up, past her, at the bedroom. Finally, a break to the white - but this wasn't much better. Pink carpeting, princess border along the ceiling, white walls, and a gold canopy bed.
"What," he said, "no Barbie dream castle?"
Layne flushed. "Shut up.

Brigid Kemmerer

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#66. She has drudge written all over her. She probably stares at the ceiling, things about mopping the floor.

Margaret Atwood

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#67. I love him, I think as he sits down across from me. I love him, I think as he looks up at the ceiling and then back down at me, so much raw pain shining out of his eyes. I love him, I think as he tells me he's going away.

Heather Lyons

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#68. My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol.

Ned Vizzini

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#69. When you don't have as much debt as we do, we don't have to worry about having this debt ceiling fight every single year. And I really think people are getting sick of having this news cycle every single year from Congress, from the Washington bubble.

Katie Pavlich

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#70. I looked to the ceiling and told God, God, next time I want an adventure, strike me with lightning. You have my permission.

Kristen Ashley

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#71. You ever seen that painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where God's reaching out and touching the finger of an angel? That was what it felt like at the moment my lips touched hers. It was more than just a kiss. It was something spiritual.

Chance Carter

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#72. Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.

Michael Connelly

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#73. She watches him for hours. She wants to be the sheets that cover his toes. She wants to be the ceiling separating him from the sky: above him, the first thing he sees before and after dreams. She wants to be the open window letting in the light for him.

Natalia Jaster

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#74. It's dangerous to need someone that much. You're trying to save him and he's hoping you can. You two are a disaster." I smiled at the ceiling. "It doesn't matter what or why it is. When it's good, Kara ... it's beautiful.

Jamie McGuire

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#75. Storyboarded by the West Coast's finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of action heroes - God.

Michael Marshall Smith

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#76. I tossed myself back on my bed and stared up at the ceiling. I wanted to hate him. I wanted to call him a selfish cow and go on about how he'd led me on and forced me to fall for him, but the words felt hollow. He was

R.S. Grey

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#77. Don't stand up too quick.
'Wasted effort since she was able to stand without touching the ceiling.'
Must have been a damn small bunch of warriors living here back when. (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#78. I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.

Kevin Kwan

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#79. Scapegrace went to roll his eyes, but lost his enthusiasm halfway through and ended up looking at the ceiling.

Derek Landy

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#80. Waking up begins with am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now.

Christopher Isherwood

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#81. If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room.

David Easton

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#82. For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

Anne Sexton

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#83. He can be pretty charming and charismatic. Still, he's not a well man."
The newcomers all burst out laughing. Callum scowled at her a moment before dropping his head back and saying to the ceiling, "Bloody hell.

Kristen Ashley

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#84. Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

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#85. What are you cooking this night, wife?" One of the crepes picked that moment to dislodge itself from the ceiling. It landed at her feet with a plop as if on cue. "Crepes." She kept a straight face and tried to look like this was the normal way to make crepes.

Shelly Thacker

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#86. Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

Wavy Gravy

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#87. I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

Humphrey Lyttelton

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#88. Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn't quite discern which.

Sarah MacLean

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#89. Elena startled both of them by flying up so quickly that Stefan had to grab her by the waist to keep her from shooting toward the ceiling.
I thought you had gravity!"
So did I! What do I do?"
Think heavy thoughts!"
What if it doesn't work?"
We'll buy you an anchor!

L.J.Smith

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#90. The fault is not in our stars," I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice.

Susan Dennard

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#91. I suppose she didn't think anyone was looking and had let her guard down, the way you did in an empty room. The way I did when I closed the blinds and stared up at the ceiling fan above my bed, equally fascinated and horrified by the thoughts racing through my brain.

Robyn Schneider

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#92. After two stories, I blew out my light. The night was clear. My ceiling was the sky and an eyelash of the moon. By shifting from side to side, I made my hammock swing me into sleep.

Gail Carson Levine

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#93. Yes. Go away." I stare at the ceiling. Having him this close makes me sad for some reason. Must be the drugs again. I never did like being on them. Wine is way better.
He takes my hand back. "Don't be like that.

Elle Casey

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#94. Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

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#95. The boy was twelve, reveling in the strange dust-smelling murk of a New Orleans library, watching motes flash gold in a beam of sun. He loved the ceiling lights on chains and the table lamps with their green glass shades. The room was as beautiful as another world.

Marly Youmans

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#96. A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on the number of late-night talk shows. And California passed Proposition 21. That would change guacamole officially to guac.

David Letterman

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#97. TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.

Chuck Klosterman

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#98. I deal with long blank stretches of empty boredom by laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling, imagining situations in which I might die. Apparently, Sherlock deals with it by microwaving shoes.

Eva Morgan

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#99. The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?

Lia Mills

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#100. I told you the truth at the bridge. I don't have a good excuse. Blame it on a bad mood." Tate dips his chin, and his grin shoots my heart to the ceiling. "If I tell you I'm sorry a hundred more times, will you forgive me? 'Cause I'll do it, if that's what it takes.

Jennifer Archer

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