„Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.“

— Horace Mann

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„Without story books is like a person with no soul.“
— Stephen King
„Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?“
— Virginia Woolf
„A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.“
— Walt Whitman
„There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.“
— Haruki Murakami
„There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„.. when I had my imaginary friend I would look out of the small glass panes of the window and fill them with steam. Then, I would draw a little window and go out through it. Opposite our house, there was a milk store that was named Pinzon, and I would travel from the little window through the "o" in Pinzon, and from there into the center of the earth, where I had my friend, and we would dance and play... I do not remember my friend's house, and she had no name. She was like me in age. She had no face. The truth is, I do not remember if she had a face or not, and she was very lively. I could not describe her.“
— Frida Kahlo
„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