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“he couldn’t help but be hopeful that the house served as a metaphor for his own life—it was broken now, but one room at…

— Ania Ahlborn

“... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

— Agatha Christie

“I'd made this house exactly what I wanted it to be; it was the perfect container for the life I'd chosen.”

— Anonymous

“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

“Every house, to be a true home, needs a mistress.”

— Laura Frantz

“Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the…

— Chris Coppernoll

“there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether…

— Natalia Sylvester

“How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Suppose I shaved off my hair and beard, put on the yellow robe, and went forth from the house life into homelessness?”

— Bhikkhu Ñaṇamoli

“The door flew open, revealing a wrinkled, forward-thrusting face wreathed with a nimbus of wispy white hair, a face resembling nothing so much as…

— Lyndsay Faye

“have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Before, I would have been powdered and perfumed, my hair done in an elaborate style by the patient fingers of servants. The household crake…

— Cat Hellisen