Aunt Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with a sort…

— Leo Tolstoy

“there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether…

— Natalia Sylvester

“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or…

— Celeste Ng

“Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all…

— Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

“This was it, a crossroad where a happy home was within her grasp, and on the other side lay years of loneliness and misery.”

— Anya Wylde

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices.…

— Nora Roberts

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour,…

— Harper Lee

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would…

— Sage Steadman

“There was an air of satisfaction to the house at the end of the day. Maybe the day hadn't gone exactly right, but the…

— Janet Evanovich

“It was as if instead of entering a house she was entering the idea of a house, some archetype brought to life here before…

— Celeste Ng

“But she knew better than anybody, home wasn't a place; it's a state of mind. It's the people you're with. And for her, those…

— T.A. White

“Whether anybody was home meant everything to a house. It was more than a major fact: it was the only fact. The family was…

— Jonathan Franzen