Fabric Quote by Karen Marie Moning

The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I am going to describe her life from the inside outward, from its core, the house as well, rooms in which life was gathered,…

— James Salter

She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Later, on the night that she and her beloved were slaughtered, when her eyes latched onto the crawl space where she had hidden their…

— J.R. Ward

She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire…

— Michael Ondaatje

“They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as…

— Milan Kundera

Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she…

— Bible

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would…

— Sage Steadman

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house…

— Miranda July

“Everyone, he thought, must have adored her; all men assuredly must have coveted her. She seemed but the more beautiful to him for this;…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more…

— Alison Weir