Home Quote by Eula Biss Download Open image ““You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.”” — Eula Biss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home House Parts House Tear Tear Parts Used Tear
“Even though I had a history with that house, it didn't matter. You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“And then it turned out that the House was alive, that it too could love.” — Mariam Petrosyan Copy Share Image
“It was horribly difficult, she reflected, to have finally found the place you thought of as home, only to realize you were going to… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
“It's more like she left some of herself behind in the walls and the floors and the books, like there's something she wants to… — Marie Bostwick Copy Share Image
“However, on the other hand, she was deeply saddened that broken homes were part of the norm for her granddaughter.” — Genevieve Woods Copy Share Image
“I want to put her back together. I want to break her down even more.” — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“The house felt strange. Altered. Like someone had come in during the day and shrunk all the furniture just a tiny bit.” — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.” — Abdulrazak Gurnah Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he gives a little flourish with his fingers that makes me wonder if all his movements are a quiet performance.” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I pause when the man at the register lays down a red carnation with my change, says quietly, “This is for you,” and turns… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Sonata,” he says, “means ‘sounding together.’ It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they struggle until… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I think I remember him saying that the problem with a tire fire is that it can smolder for years, burning quietly but uncontrollably.” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford. — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” What” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less,… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“When he says, “Why can’t you follow a recipe?” I am hurt, because I know that he is not just asking why I can’t… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“We had been arguing for hours and it was dark in the room. We sat silently on the couch, I was tapping my foot… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing.… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Mother: “He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I’d still get something out of it. I guess that’s… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I was shaking when I asked my mother, “Do you think you eat enough?” She was silent for a long time until she said… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image