#curtains

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apart #because #closed #curtains #draw

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#burglars #curtains #dull #friend #grew

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance. ↗

— Julie Harris

#dress #had #instance #make #same

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#books #collective #curtains #dignity #drawn

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons! ↗

— Lil' Romeo

#cover #curtains #everything #gadgets #i