Empty shell Quote by Daphne du Maurier

“It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity so that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“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

“I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.”

— John Green

“The house appeared just as cozy and welcoming as the first time I saw it. Now, though, I knew what I was seeing was…

— Marianna Baer

“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.”

— Henning Mankell

“Below me, in the foundations of the house, I could hear the clothes I'd buried there growing themselves a body.”

— Margaret Atwood

“It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I searched until I panted for breath, but could not find it. The solid stone structure was nowhere to be seen. The house was…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“A shell screams over the house. He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours.”

— Anthony Doerr

“The house was still as death, and nothing but the wailing of the wind broke the deep hush.”

— Louisa May Alcott