Nature Quote by Caroline Moorehead

“there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether…

— Natalia Sylvester

“She would not risk to grow so fond of her home that it was a pain to leave it; she preferred to remain a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or…

— Celeste Ng

“Her life was like her house—a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.”

— Maeve Binchy

“Houses are entirely different when you know them well, she thought, and on first acquaintance even more different from their real selves, more deceptive…

— Nancy Mitford

“She fancied herself superiour to her surroundings: surely there were higher things to live for. Yet the ugliness of this room was but a…

— Helen Dawes Brown

“Sometimes it seemed to him that the house had a bad wild life of its own; the impression of its evil lingered, in its…

— Rumer Godden

“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“There's something about houses that intrigues me. I mean, they're the place where families spend all their time together, making the house filled with…

— Taylor Dean

“The normality of the house terrified her: the gleaming surfaces, the tidiness, the homey touches, the sense that a person lived here who might…

— Dean Koontz

“And suddenly it seemed to Olive that every house she had ever gone into depressed her, except for her own, and the one they…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Empirically, the home had been designed to suit its purpose, and it did so quite well. It was a place where dreams died and…

— Joseph DiFrancesco