Quote by John Steinbeck

“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to…

— Noel Monk

“Indoors was his place and there he'd moulder, a respectable pillar of society who has never had the chance to misbehave.”

— E.M. Forster

“He’d polished that old coffee table a few times since he had arrived, but the dust seemed to meander from room to room like…

— Ania Ahlborn

“Sometimes it's necessary to leave the room. Come back a few minutes later with a handkerchief and a runny nose. He didn't notice that…

— Gregory Hill

“Sighing, he rubbed his forehead, leaving a smear of black ash. “I’ve temporally blocked the collective because I can’t answer that many calls at…

— Kim Harrison

“It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.”

— Jean Webster

“Maybe it was tact that made Benjamin sigh. He didn't roll his eyes or look pained, which was pretty damn magnanimous of him.”

— Lili St. Crow

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

— Anne Ursu

“She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since,…

— K. Martin Beckner

“In the room full of individuals for whom I hold feelings of resentment about, Who might be the first I would converse with, when…

— Nishikant

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“I get prickly when people are bleeding on my furniture. We tend you, and then we tend the mess that's following you. In that…

— Devon Monk