Quote by Carol Shields

“the room had grown smothery. He wanted to be out in some cool and bitter breeze, miles above the cities, and to live serene…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“I like being around the house with you,’ he said. ‘I like to be where you are.”

— Jan Karon

“Among the most ghastly sounds a man can hear is the sound of a voice in what he thought was an empty house.”

— Matthew M. Bartlett

“Why did some people hear the voice, loud and clear, while others just floated from thing to thing, from person to person, never completely…

— Rachael Herron

“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him.…

— D.H. Lawrence

“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all…

— Pete Dexter

“Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in…

— Elizabeth Alexander

“His voice was everything she equated with home.”

— Tracy Guzeman

“Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him. And sometimes they don’t.”

— Sherry Thomas

“At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke…

— Rupert Thomson

“Houses seem to remember,' said he. 'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.”

— Emma Frances Dawson

“He had no thought og how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a house where…

— Truman Capote