Bubble bath Quote by Celeste Ng

“in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the…

— Herman Melville

“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“In the moonlight David saw that Thoresby had become very peculiar indeed. Figs nestled among the leaves of beech-trees. Elder-trees were bowed down with…

— Susanna Clarke

“The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not contain a…

— Paul Harding

“The townhouse was in a community called Waterview, a pretty green place with a common that had a gazebo and a fountain. The homes…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“When there was a summer of bad bush fires, all that was left of the house was the brick recess that had held the…

— Olga Masters

“Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as…

— Edith Wharton

“Thoughtful, innovative, this mother was; she always had the solution. So on the stickiest of nights, when the varnished wood chairs sweated and moths…

— Sarah Beth Martin

“I didn’t know how long my sisters and I lay there together, just like we had once shared that carved bed in that dilapidated…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She stood by the fireplace talking, in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress, to Papa, who had begun…

— Virginia Woolf

“She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had…

— Victor Hugo

“Yesterday morning I managed briefly to escape Mamma, & passed a lovely hour in the roof garden. I thought of you, dearest, & how…

— Kate Morton