Churchyard Walled Quote by David Levithan

“In the meantime, the place became dilapidated, the wind whistled through the cracked walls, the rain fell through the broken roof, the weeds choked…

— Charles Dickens

“the churchyard, in ruins, some of the people who used to pray there, go there still. they need help from each other to get…

— George MacDonald

“He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in the suit,…

— Charles Dickens

“There is nothing half so green that I know anywhere, as the grass of that churchyard; nothing half so shady as its trees; nothing…

— Charles Dickens

“He glanced first at me, and then at his devastated flowerbed; all plowed up and butchered, like a Ripper victim- like Pearly Poll, lying…

— Russell Brand

“The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.”

— Jane Austen

“It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have…

— Shirley Jackson

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

— Sharon Shinn

“But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there had a…

— Dan Baum

“[Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had been a sale of the furniture at our…

— Charles Dickens

“As the invaders caught the villagers and tore into them, they made soothing, crooning noises that somehow drowned out the shrieking. They strangled the…

— Kathe Koja

“The old tree brooded over me silently, a living thing. I heard a mouse snoring in the garden weeds. The rooftops of Berkeley looked…

— Jack Kerouac