All the best Quote by Bruce Chatwin

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once…

— Charles Dickens

We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the…

— Charles Dickens

“Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted shades to…

— Tahereh Mafi

A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands…

— Stephenie Meyer

“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings,…

— Isabel Allende

If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the…

— Donna Tartt

My childhood bedroom - if childhood could be about ten years old - had a bed which was under windows which faced north. At…

— Vera Rubin

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

— Brad Goreski

“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was a look…

— Patti Callahan Henry

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out…

— Dean Koontz