“For once I'd like to be human wallpaper.”
“I'm like the wallpaper, there but barely noticed.”
“That wallpaper. touching it like that, was one of my protection tricks”
“Books enveloped the room floor to ceiling like wallpaper.”
“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.”
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”