Sitting On The Terrace Quotes

#1. Dr. Grant was right, the feeling no longer swallows her. Bela lives on its periphery, she takes it in at a distance. The way her grandmother, sitting on a terrace in Tollygunge, used to spend her days overlooking a lowland, a pair of ponds.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.

Jim Butcher

#3. A gal who wants to powder her nose should have enough toilet tissue in hand.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#4. She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.

Caroline Blackwood

#5. If what we presently believe to be true is not producing a Kingdom result, we may need to reconsider what we believe to be true.

Blake L. Higginbotham

#6. The repeat is always the killer. Everything inside you goes into saying the word once, but sorry is the kind of word the person you say it to always wants to hear twice.

Courtney Summers

#7. Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.

Rose George

#8. I can still picture the two sisters sitting together on the terrace, well wrapped up against the chill, one with her terminal cancer, the other with her cardiac asthma and arthritis, envy and resentment forgotten as they faced the great equalizer of death.

P.D. James

#9. She sees tall, sensible Eleanor sitting out on a terrace at twilight, with bats circling above her head. She sees the Pargiter family rising and falling through the decades like swimmers battling the waves.'
Summer Lies Bleeding

Nuala Casey

#10. Walking onto his terrace those first months to see in the distance the well-behaved mountain sitting under the sun might provoke a reverie about the calm that follows catastrophe.

Susan Sontag

#11. Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called Vlam

Kristin Cashore

#12. He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.

Harry Mulisch

#13. No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Charles Dickens