By-the-sea Quote by Abdulrazak Gurnah

“Sometimes life will tear your house apart so you can see the cracks in the foundation.”

— Vanessa Ooms

“When a crumbling house reaches a certain point, there’s no fixing it. You tear it down. You clear the rubble, and then you build…

— Amanda Bouchet

“It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I think it’s from seeing the material summation of his life sitting in ruins. If we are our jobs, our houses, our cars… all…

— Ryan Schow

“My rebirth had crumbled apart, and all I had left was the rubble to build with.”

— Christina L. Barr

“No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.”

— Anna Kamienska

“I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.”

— John Green

“This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and…

— Heather Demetrios

“You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.”

— Robert Goolrick

“My home is here with this family I've built from scraps of tragedy.”

— Lisa See

“When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.”

— Clarice Lispector

“I didn’t always dread going home. But when my family began to collapse I learned to stay away, avoid getting trapped beneath all the…

— Kelsey Sutton