“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
“old folks frey, the curb to the house the smell of illness and lost souls painted on the walls of washed off… — Nii Yeboah Norton Nortey Copy Share Image
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has… — John Le Carre Copy Share Image
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs… — Charles Dickens 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 recount as this journey begins where I rest to gather the tale from this same old house resting on the hill,… — Kris Courtney Copy Share Image
“If you want. It’s not really your kind of thing,” Perry said. “It’s a snow globe. You know, a big old house… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an… — Tammy Faye Bakker 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
Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate) of Flat 21, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“We saw Leif to the door and wished him farewell. Time to hit the hay for the last time in this old… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
In these old houses, I mean, we're here in the 17th century part of the palace and I can really belt out… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
“We drove past our old house,” the woman told me, “and I noticed that the tree he had watered through the droughts… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
“...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“... 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
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines In two straight… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image