“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“He’s always looking out windows,
contemplating something.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I sat in a box
With walls on each side.
Not too tall.
Not too wide.
To think.
To ponder.
To pray.
To hide.
I sat in a box and cried.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

“What's wrong?'

His wings were nowhere to be seen, not even the shadow of them. 'I'm debating asking you to stay tomorrow.'

I crossed my arms. 'I thought I was going.' Don't lock me up in this house, don't shove me aside-

He ran a hand through his hair. 'What I ahve to be tomorrow, who I have to become, is not... it's not something I want you to see. How I will treat you, treat others...'

'The mask of the High Lord,' I said quietly.

'Yes.' He took a seat on the bottom step of the stairs.

I remained in the centre of the foyer as I asked carefully. 'Why don't you want me to see that?'

'Because you've only started to look at me like I'm not a monster, and I can't stomach the idea of anything you see tomorrow, being beneath the mountain, putting you back into that place where I found you.'

Beneath the mountain- underground. Yes, I'd forgotten that. Forgotten I'd see the court Amarantha had modelled her own after, that I'd be trapped beneath the earth...

But with Cassian and Azriel, and Mor. With... him.

I waited for the panic, the cold sweat. Neither came. 'Let me help. In whatever way I can.'

Blackness shaded the starlight in those eyes. 'The role you will have to play is not a pleasant one.'

'I trust you,' I sat beside him on the stairs, close enough that the heat of his body warmed the chill night air clinging to my overcoat.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Her thoughts spun. There were objects in the window of a shop that she couldn't quite fathom: possibly candy, possibly gems and crystals. There were so many alien things about this world she still didn't know. There were so many more things in the rest of the world, both above and below the sea, that were yet to be discovered....
"You okay, Ariel? You seem a little, I dunno, worried or spacey or something," Scuttle said.
"I just... I was just thinking about past choices and future possibilities."
"Huh. Deep stuff. Well, the world's your oyster after today.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World

“Communicating is not the same as forgiving. Forgiving is communicating while contemplating life.”
― Alan Maiccon

“If you watch a contemplative person from afar, you'll start contemplating too!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Lucien paused, and I found him smirking at me, making the scar even more brutal. 'Were you admiring my sword, or just contemplating killing me, Feyre?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“The first impressions with the ashram people
are these sparkling interior experiences. The eyeballs can be peepholes into the Milky Way and beyond. You may mumble under your breath that the ashram people could be on something.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

“The contemplative clinking and methodical chewing are a little weird, but it is proof that souls are housed
inside the physical body.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God