#stairs

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#bombed #brought #fell #home #house

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#call #department #down #fire #house

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs. ↗

— Wellington Mara

#i #maybe #old #since #time

C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#elected #embarrassing #get #hard #hard time

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #life

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #life

I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale. I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can teach each other. Find her, Will, and tell her that I loved her always. My blessings, for all that it is worth, is on you both. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #love

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #love

I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#first #i #kitchen #remembered #said

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#age #big #blonde #clumsy #cute