Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid…

...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly…

— Victor Hugo

“The gravedigger's work is charming when done by a child.”

— Victor Hugo

“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

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“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

“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

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

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

— Sherman Alexie

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

“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

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

— Helen Thomas

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

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

— Kelly Moran

“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

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