“... a necklace of pearls on a white neck. We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“She’s no ordinary ghost, that seems certain,” he says. “I know. Something’s made her stronger.” “The way she died?” he asks. “I’m… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Then there was a fine noise of rushing water from the crown of an oak at his back, as if a spigot… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“The gash in the girl’s neck flooded Taylor’s mind and she nearly missed her exit off the highway. Without thinking, she hit… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I’m doing is… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“New Season No coats today. Buds bulge on chestnut trees, And on the doorstep of a big, old house A young man… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn’t want to go out… — Pamela Duncan Copy Share Image
“I love you, Godric St. John, and now I'm breaking my word. I will not leave you. You may either come with… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“As it baked, the blessed casserole smelled just like it did when I was a child, which was likely the last time… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“MY MOST CONSTANT and vivid memory is not so much of the people but of the actual house in Aracataca where I… — Gerald Martin Copy Share Image
“We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The fight unfolded like background noise. White noise. In the foreground, even with his ghastly pale face looking dead in my hands,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“...Until they stood at last by a crumbling wall, looking up and up and still farther up at the great tombyard top… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
It wasn't until a few years ago, when I was going through old Facebook pictures with a friend, and happened upon a… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
“Hugh Crain,” Theodora said, “you were a dirty old man, and you made a dirty old house and if you can still… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“We could make a meal of what’s left in this box: potato, onion, rind of cheese, elderly egg. We could make another… — Rachel Contreni Flynn Copy Share Image
“I thought,” Eleanor said carefully, “that I might even look around. Old houses are usually cheap, you know, and it’s fun to… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
And there were times when one yielded quite shamelessly to the sentimental. They were more likely to be times of crickets, I… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I worry that I'll slide back into the mindless rotisserie of work and projects that guided me in my old house...… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“Trees arched over the road, their scraggly arms outstretched. Spring was on its way, though ice was still trapped in tree crevices,… — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“The sidewalk was all cracked and wavy, like little hills, and the weeds pushed their way up through the cement. I had… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“Shawn slowly climbed the old wooden stairs, listening to the low creak that sounded from his footsteps. He hoped the wood wouldn’t… — Joe DeRouen Copy Share Image
