Atmospheric Quote by David H. Millar

“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

“The room I got is best described as being a glorified closet. It was like four times worse than what they gave you here…

— Adam Rapp

“As the shabby section of the audience rose to its feet, waving its hats and food-wrappers, a rich, stale smell wafted through the auditorium.…

— Graham Robb

“As you entered the room stirring air with suppleness of walk, waking up the stillness with jingles of cymbals, making curtains dance to the…

— Suman Pokhrel

“The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap.”

— Annie Proulx

“THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of…

— Jean Rhys

“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness…

— H.Y. Hanna

“Trying to divert my mind, I look around the tiny living room. The peach of the faded wall reminds me why I hate the…

— Alka Dimri Saklani

“In the lobby, an old woman with legs wrapped in elastic bandages mopped the floor with filthy water. She kept missing the same spot,…

— David Remnick

“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

“rooms. They were upstairs. At the back of the shop a spiral staircase led up to a balcony overlooking the dresses below. A dozen…

— Angela Roquet

“The shelves covered all four walls of the square room, broken in three places by tall, narrow windows with stained-glass inserts above and upholstered…

— Susanna Kearsley