Age Quote by Emma Cline

“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

“She returned many years later. So much time had passed that the smell of musk in the room had blended in with the smell…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Houses are never just houses. I'm quite sure of this now. We leave particles behind, dust and dreams, fingerprints buried on wallpapers, our tread…

— Eve Chase

“I let the front door slam shut behind me and the fly screen rattle. It was as if each door was kicking me out…

— Markus Zusak

“Unlike the rest he had seen of the bungalow, the hall beyond the door was dark. He could see the glimmer of three doors…

— Ramsey Campbell

“By the end, she cleaned the house so much that she had dust in her eyes and her throat, her knees were scrapped a…

— Prerna Varma

“We crawled through time like roaches through the linings of walls, the neglected spaces and hours, foolishly happy that we were still alive even…

— Jesmyn Ward

“the house picked up again its long, slow project of decay.”

— Diane Setterfield

“A house is such a strange thing. Everything else gets more worn when people handle it, and sometimes you can feel a person’s poison…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

“The Housefly I’m just a little pesky thing, Flying to eke out a living. So round and round and round I hiss, And fill…

— David B. Lentz

“Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you could fill…

— Cornelia Funke

“Everything in the house turned damp; the blue fur of mildew crept furtively over any object left standing for the briefest length of time:…

— Anita Desai