#stairs

For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#brought #could #done #felt #fun

It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#feel #gave #i #just #kind

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #loss #love #marriage

Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #men

Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #trust

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#equal #equality #hall #his #lordship

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

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt. ↗

— Hope Davis

#downstairs #drop #everything #his #iron

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#being #game #i #machines #novel

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#climbed #died #early #floor #laden