Home Quote by James Bennett

“A tidy house is a sign of a misspent life.”

— Mom

“As I walked down the extremely narrow hall of my not-so-mobile home, passing over the pale yellow linoleum curling up so that it no…

— Michael Lister

“After that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet…

— James Herriot

“If everything in life could be as utterly lovely as newly washed hand towels and daintily perfumed soaps.”

— Jennifer Beckstrand

“ The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the book on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life…

— Charlotte Moss

“In all my longing for a family and a home, I'd never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But…

— Lisa Kleypas

“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier…

— Hermann Hesse

“I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places do -- draw in people with no…

— David Sedaris

“Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them…

— T. Greenwood

“The whole house, its very walls, was impregnated with a smell of vitality that he was unused to. He thought about his own apartment,…

— Paolo Giordano

“On the dresser was a row of blue-and-white jars that weren't very useful for anything. They'd been left to her mother by an elderly…

— terry pratchett

“The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.”

— Jane Austen