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“Back to the house.' The house?' Yes. You know...the oversized box in which we live?” — Jennifer DeLucy Copy Share Image
“I bet you a million dollars there are less than five books in this whole house. What kind of life can you have in… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.” — Jolene Stockman Copy Share Image
“(One day, when I own a house, I’ll keep a full library of books. Books are different from other possessions—they’re more like friends.)” — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
“I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together,” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than… — Charles Davis Copy Share Image
“But our tiny home is so much more than its four ramshackle walls and lopsided roof would have you believe. Inside, it’s big, full… — Jessica McCann Copy Share Image
“I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“You wake in the morning, you’re feeling fine, but all at once you think, “Something’s not right. Something’s off somewhere; what is it?” And… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image