Slats Quotes

#1. People will think we're having an affair," Kate said. She took a seat next to Bill on the cold slats of treated wood.
"That would be better than the truth.

Chris Pavone

#2. Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

George Luks

#3. After several minutes, Trina finally stopped in front of a small shack that had been boarded up with three wooden slats nailed across the door. From the outside. Someone had been imprisoned. And that someone was screaming.

James Dashner

#4. In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

David Levithan

#5. From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine's room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the slats of the shutters, striped from top to bottom with parallel bars of gold.

Marcel Proust

#6. When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it.

Gregory Maguire

#7. Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

Joseph Campbell

#8. Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.

Tim Seibles

#9. Shadows crept along the ground like slowly seeping India ink, moved up the sides of the house, and slipped through the slats on the picket fence. Sunset tinted the sky purple and pink.

Kristin Hannah

#10. And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.

Kristin Cashore

#11. I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

Kathy Griffin

#12. I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

Christina Stead

#13. Waking up from a deep, healing sleep reminds me of rushing toward the surface of a lake, brightness beckoning from above and bubbles fizzing all around me. Consciousness

Amanda Bouchet

#14. Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.

Flea