Ceilings Quote by Charles Dickens

“Her eyes adjusted to the new contours of the building. The decline was far worse than she had imagined. Here, grey streaks across its…

— Tahmima Anam

“She had never seen the Tree House at night. Vast and dark, lit with candles for the occasion, the rooms looked magical, the staircase…

— Allegra Goodman

“...Until they stood at last by a crumbling wall, looking up and up and still farther up at the great tombyard top of the…

— Ray Bradbury

We lived in the top-floor council flat, the same level as the flyovers going past the window. I loved it. I used to imagine…

— Lee Evans

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

“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

The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the…

— Charles Dickens

“Part of her wanted simply to sit and stare out of the window, at the lawn, flaky with sodden leaves, and the branches with…

— A.S. Byatt

“Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered…

— Mira Jacob

But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante…

— J.R. Ward

“Places are supposed to look smaller when you go back to them, but my road just looked schizoid. A couple of the houses had…

— Tana French

“The green painted concrete out in front of the house, which at first seemed like a novel way to save money on lawn-moving, was…

— Shaun Tan