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“She felt safe here in the arms of this dangerous man. It was like returning to a home that had been destroyed and rebuilt.…

— Kerrigan Byrne

“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

“This woman had a loving heart and a capacity to understand another fallible human being.”

— Lydia Davis

“but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with…

— Jane Austen

“Home is not necessarily, where the heart is. It is also, where good food,people, and sanity resides. even if that accounts for a house,…

— anjali mukherjee

“She would not risk to grow so fond of her home that it was a pain to leave it; she preferred to remain a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to…

— Gregg Olsen

“She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The flesh was weak, but it was not dumb. It had its own animal intelligence. In her husband's bed her body had felt like…

— Meredith Duran

“But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt as if…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Houses, I have come to believe, like love, like nature herself, should not reassure, should not attempt to soothe, or give comfort, but should,…

— Patrick McGrath

“Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And…

— Karen Fisher