Quote by D.A. Young

“Houses don't clean themselves, she'd mutter. Sometimes she cleaned the bits she had just cleaned. It wasn't like living in a house, but more…

— Rachel Joyce

“The children nodded in agreement, and rose from the table. Leaving their dirty breakfast dishes behind, which is not a good thing to do…

— Lemony Snicket

“Georgina, I need your help'' Reaching into her purse, she pulled out two pages torn from magazines. ''With wha-oh'' My stomach twisted uncomfotably, and…

— Richelle Mead

“You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.”

— Eula Biss

“hall table and made her way into the kitchen, knowing”

— S.J. Bolton

“Doris was getting No. 4 ready for a new guest. The floor did not trouble her much, but she spent quite a long time…

— Monica Dickens

“By the end, she cleaned the house so much that she had dust in her eyes and her throat, her knees were scrapped a…

— Prerna Varma

“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

“and nails done, right after she visited the school nurse,”

— Rachel Renée Russell

“She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints.”

— Graham Greene

“Sophia thought about the bathrobe more and more. The thing living in it was as quick as lightning but could lie in wait for…

— Tove Jansson

“No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one…

— Stacy Hawkins Adams