“...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
“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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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
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I want Pucci woman to be a Pucci girl. That's number one, because I think she should have that vibe that corresponds… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
I felt the darkness as it tried to pull me down (pull me down) The kind of dark that haunts a hundred… — The Drug In Me Is YouFalling In Reverse Copy Share Image
“Far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He would not chance arrest by crawling into a corner of one of the old houses on Lower Broadway where the cops… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821.… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
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“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Latham patted Hayley's knee with a frail, liver-spotted hand. ''I'm sure you do, dear. And I'm afraid those kinds of losses… — Carol Rose Copy Share Image
“It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when England remembers that there is a sun. The star of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“She could not have created this moment, these lovely faces, these candles flickering, the flash of the silverware, the fragrances of the… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence which is entirely strange… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“What is the age of the soul of man? As she hath the virtue of the chameleon to change her hue at… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The oldest district of Massa is Rocca, with very narrow streets (but few old houses) and the church of San Rocco, which… — Alta MacAdam Copy Share Image
“My old friend, what are you looking for? After years abroad you’ve come back with images you’ve nourished under foreign skies far… — George Seferis 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
I remember him as young and restless. Slightly wild and free. The woods were his escape, his sanctuary. Thats where we would… — Jade 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
“This is an old house. Among the oldest in the area, a white clapboard former farmhouse built in 1748. Fart on the… — Nina Malkin Copy Share Image
I never went camping when I was a kid - I'm from Hounslow, it's a bit of a concrete jungle. In my… — Asim Chaudhry Copy Share Image
“The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened,… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Tendrils of mist slithered over the forest floor, around the base of trees. Xander noticed that some of it had climbed the… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
“If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“But in general that is how we prefer to be thought of, for it tends to keep away unwanted visitors. These days… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
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