“Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?”
“You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor.”
“Books enveloped the room floor to ceiling like wallpaper.”
“The floors were like marble chessboards, and the ceilings were like cakes.”
“Why am I here? I was falling off a cliff just a minute ago, and then I landed on your floor.”Estelle looked down to the floor, up at the ceiling, and then to Riley. Estelle said, “There is no cliff above my ceiling.”
“Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada’s search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they had nothing important to say that lay toward either the ceiling or the floor, or she would render them mute.”