“I only saw fire and chandeliers and smoke. No people. Not the room. Not even a time frame. Do you know how many chandeliers there are in the south wing alone? What was I supposed to do? Tell everyone to avoid chandeliers forever?”
“She didn’t think that by hanging a chandelier from the ceiling you made a room with a chandelier. She felt you’d made another world, which you could slip in and out of by some vague process of application”
“See how the fearful chandelier trembles above you each time you open your mouth to sing.Sing.”
“I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.”
“She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!”
“I’ve got a piece of the American Dream. I don’t have a house, but I do have a new chandelier. Now I just have to build a house around it.”