American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

About two years into living in Toronto, my apartment burned to the ground. My husband and I ended up living in his grandparents' attic…

— Annie Murphy

“The attic of your beautiful throat is laced with owl and cobweb. Night sings north, the need of winter. Look up and know what…

— Linda France

“A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world is different.”

— Antonio Iturbe

“The Citizen's attic was, objectively, breathtaking. The place was littered with trunks and old clothes and wardrobes and pieces of furniture and strange metal…

— April Genevieve Tucholke

“Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.”

— Kelly Moran

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories,…

— Alice Morse Earle

“Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid squalor. There is a rose-tinted attic in all our lives.”

— Victor Hugo

I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show…

— Claudia Gray

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

— Sherman Alexie

For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Sara!" she cried, aghast. "Mamma Sara!" She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Turning fifty is an entirely different matter altogether. “At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's…

— John Oates

“You don't ask questions of an attic”

— Barbara Kingsolver