Quote by Deborah Coates

“Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then what?" I…

— Christina Baker Kline

“As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I think most places can be interesting to live in if you find a way to make them so.”

— Gabrielle Donnelly

“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

“Dearest Shell, If you let me I'd always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters. . .I'm afraid to…

— Leonard Cohen

“The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there’s something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn’t want…

— Karen Marie Moning

“We were all like a gaggle of hermit crabs without shells, flopping around trying to find ourselves. Instead we found each other, and that's…

— Hollis Gillespie

“There's nothing more satisfying than making someplace look like someplace else and nobody knows the difference.”

— Idontknow

“It really isn't where you live as much as who you live with that makes a place feel like home.”

— Carla Reighard

“In all my longing for a family and a home, I'd never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But…

— Lisa Kleypas