Carpets Quotes

“Real men can carry carpets, Claire. Keep that in mind when looking for a husband.”
― Isaac

“The light in that suburban office suite was bright but not harsh; the pale walls were incredibly clean and the carpeting, in Spence's description, was conspicuosly new and displayed the exact shade of purple found in turnips.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

“When I was a child, I looked at rugs the same way, as a grown-up, I look at an abstract painting.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

“The bowl of steaming lentils
opened its wide mouth as we sat and sat,
stitching the seam of talk,
till the man with the rug from Baghdad arrived
rolling out its long length inside your door.

It was orange. It looked happy.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East