“He stepped fully into the house. The air inside was cool on his skin. He turned, expecting the front door to close… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
“History was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestor whispering inside. To understand history, we have… — Arundhati Roy; The God of Small Things 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
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
“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 would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory,… — Jason Wu 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
“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
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
“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
“HIS chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead young mothers, returned to see how their children fare. There… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“There is a marvellous Indian story of a boy who leaves home in search of truth. He goes to various teachers, walking… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Should I Today I am in search of a light, that can show me a way bright, Today I am trying to… — Ratish Edwards 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
“... 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Hot punch is a pleasant thing, gentlemen---an extremely pleasant thing under any circumstances---but in that snug old parlour, before the roaring fire,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share Image
“But I know when you go to old houses, the doorways are much smaller, ’cause people were shorter then, so maybe cocks… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now,… — Kent McCord Copy Share Image
