Familiar Quote by James Maxwell

“It was as if instead of entering a house she was entering the idea of a house, some archetype brought to life here before…

— Celeste Ng

“Houses are entirely different when you know them well, she thought, and on first acquaintance even more different from their real selves, more deceptive…

— Nancy Mitford

“...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.”

— Susan Örnbratt

“really been just five months ago that she didn’t have a care in the world? The only things that she had worried about back…

— Paula Kay

“A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“Her life was like her house—a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.”

— Maeve Binchy

“The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with a sort…

— Leo Tolstoy

“She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.”

— Celeste Ng

“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband…

— Shirley Hazzard

“when she was able to imagine a different life that might have been hers, the kind of life she knew that she'd always really…

— Nicholas Sparks

“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or…

— Celeste Ng

“A house you came to love was like a person, and loved you back, and then you belonged to it forever.”

— Elswyth Thane