Gothic architecture Quote by Cyn Balog

“Precedent forces us to suppose that later generations will one day walk around our houses with the same attitude of horror and amusement with…

— Alain de Botton

“The bedroom was larger than our entire cottage. Its walls were pale green, delicately sketched with patterns of gold, and the mouldings were golden…

— Sarah J. Maas

“But here there were houses full of *stuff*, fancy sheets woven with silk floss as soft as a baby's bum; fancy washstands carved of…

— Meredith Duran

“The tan carpet was stiff and black with stripes of dried blood, spattered like a Jackson Pollock canvas. The walls were streaked with it,…

— Holly Black

“I am going to describe her life from the inside outward, from its core, the house as well, rooms in which life was gathered,…

— James Salter

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse,…

— William Morris

“Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and…

— Edna Ferber

“this empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might…

— Darin Strauss

I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It's ridiculous. I'll call her and be like, 'I saw this dress, can…

— Margaret Qualley

She takes after her mother. The make-up and the slutty clothes.

— Hank Moody

“That’s not my concern just now. This man—” “Grayson Thane,” Brianna supplied, more than grateful the topic had turned away from their mother. “A…

— Nora Roberts

“Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.”

— Michael Chabon