Old house Quote by J. Thorn

“I leaned agains the warm brick wall and gazed up. It was a bright, cloudless day, the sky a mocking blue. It was the…

— Tracy Chevalier

“They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Light slowly grew in the room, planted by a few seeds of morning sun that whispered through the windows. The heater struggled to catch…

— Kate Willis

“He was brilliant sunlight that drove away winter's chill.”

— Andrea Cremer

“November and the sun grows sparse in the sky.”

— Erica Jong

“As the dark fumes floated above the houses, snow began to fall gently from a dull sky, each flake giving a small hiss as…

— Anthony Powell

“The house filled rapidly; cheerful talk overflowed the rooms and children were bobbing in and out everywhere with their shining new toys, until finally,…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Up in Shirley Falls, spring was slower to arrive. Nights were cold, but the way the dawn light cracked open along the horizon, bringing…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From those brown hills, have melted into spring.”

— Emily Brontë

“... the city around us seemed colder than ever again, and I realised that even if it really had sensed something going on, it…

— Markus Zusak

“It went so dark inside of me. And it was dark outside, too, in those miserable after-Christmas months: cold and wet and icy. I…

— Cat Marnell