Building Quote by Charles Dickens

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices.…

— Nora Roberts

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

— Emma Frances Dawson

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in…

— Arundhati Roy

“The whole house, its very walls, was impregnated with a smell of vitality that he was unused to. He thought about his own apartment,…

— Paolo Giordano

“When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to…

— Robert Hayden

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him…

— Laura Hillenbrand

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a…

— JRR Tolkien

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“he couldn’t help but be hopeful that the house served as a metaphor for his own life—it was broken now, but one room at…

— Ania Ahlborn

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“Some of her earliest memories were of her grandmother's house, of a place that smelled like cinnamon and old books. The house felt like…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The one…

— James Caskey