Years ago Quote by Erika Swyler

“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

“Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's…

— Meghan Daum

My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it…

— Karen Chance

“were old homes, now abandoned, windswept and useless. And”

— Colin Dodds

“No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.”

— Anna Kamienska

“I told the tree it was going nowhere in life. It was hurtful, but true. Now, maybe in death it will go somewhere, as…

— Jarod Kintz

“The other Houses don’t know that my House still exists.”

— Josephine Angelini

“The cook, the gardener, and the guard stayed behind the main house in a cold-water shack with a rusted roof, like a piece of…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my hand. The…

— Emma Cline

“do you know what ghosts are? they are sad, evicted things. memories without homes”

— Paul Prospero

“There is no way I am crawling home, a complete failure, to live under my parents’ roof, bringing the wife I can no longer…

— M.L. Gardner

“The Hurricane The tree lay down on the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.”

— William Carlos Williams