Walkways Quotes:

So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.136, Penguin

topic: Morning, Moving, Hands, Walkways, Separate Ways

When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Lying, Men, Skins, Walkways, Want To See You

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

- Donna Tartt

source: Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.523, Vintage

topic: Eerie, Long, Perspective, Walkways, Rubble

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

- John Major

source: "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

topic: Running, Block, Community, Walkways, Muggers

But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Eye, Thinking, Two, Walkways, Kimonos