Building Quote by Gordon Korman

“Isa let her sewing drop. The great hooded chairs had become enormous. And Giles too. And Isa too against the window. The window was…

— Virginia Woolf

“Cavernous windows opened in a silent scream on the face of the Gothic house that tilted on the crest of Foster Hill. Its gables…

— Jaime Jo Wright

“It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“they met a policeman and brought him back. The man rang the bell several times, but there was no answer. Except for a light…

— Oscar Wilde

“I imagined that the building carried the sadness of the women who'd been trapped there...I didn't see them--there was no visible mass of ghosts…

— Claire Messud

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we’d left, had seeped into the wood and…

— Ava Dellaira

“You're seriously talking about a ghost. This building - or parts of it - has been here for two and a half centuries. It…

— Nora Roberts

“Last year there was a shadow of a man in the upstairs porch. The doors were closed in the middle of the day with…

— Pinkberry

“Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a…

— Hwang Jungeun

“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating…

— Sinclair Ross

“Just the sounds of an old building settling, I tell myself . . . but I wonder.”

— Stephen King