Quote by Jeffrey Gettleman

“In the meantime, the place became dilapidated, the wind whistled through the cracked walls, the rain fell through the broken roof, the weeds choked…

— Charles Dickens

“I don't know where to go, I stay planted in front of the cardboard chef. I don't need to turn around to know they…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“It was busy in Central Kitchen. The line snaked around the walls and tailed out the door, past the two burly gavvers and onto…

— Patricia Forde

“In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams.…

— Sarah J. Maas

“There was a big barn and a darling little farmhouse at the end of a drive through the fields. As they got closer Maggie…

— Robyn Carr

“The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not contain a…

— Paul Harding

“He stepped fully into the house. The air inside was cool on his skin. He turned, expecting the front door to close on its…

— Robert Liparulo

“Home is a room dappled with firelight: there are pictures and books. And when the rain sighs, and the acorns fall, there are patterns…

— Mervyn Peake

“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said…

— Charles Dickens

“some of it his wife’s. Her lithe body lay haphazardly on the floor by her husband’s feet. Her throat was open, the wound deep…

— Rob Sinclair

“I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if…

— Ross Macdonald

“I backed out of the kitchen. Griff was a rigid shadow halfway down the hall, his gaze trained on the door at the end.…

— Emma Lord