Life Quote by J.C. Gatlin

“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

“Something happened when the house was dark. They were able to talk to each other again.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.”

— Alice Sebold

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it…

— Kevin Brockmeier

“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

“The house felt strange. Altered. Like someone had come in during the day and shrunk all the furniture just a tiny bit.”

— Anne Ursu

“It was completely still, not a sound within or outside. As if it was just the two of them, nothing more in the world,…

— Harriet Evans

“The room was freezing. It smelled of people who had gone away to live other lives, and of all they had eaten and dreamed.”

— Neil Gaiman

“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

“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The…

— Hannah Harrington

“He turned and walked across the floor and out. I watched the door close. I listened to his steps going away down the imitation…

— Raymond Chandler