Cottages Quote by Lauren Groff

“To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“The homes of so many skeletons. People who used to fight over the last blueberry muffin at the breakfast table, get down on their…

— Francesca Lia Block

“On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen.…

— Lori Lansens

“There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in…

— Carrie Ryan

“It was frustratingly common that children were no sooner gone from the nest and established in their own homes, in Roger’s case a gleaming…

— Helen Simonson

“The churchyard. Walled in by houses and overrun with weeds, choked up with too much buying.”

— David Levithan

“in the industrial towns children went to work with their fathers and mothers, schools and doctors were only promises, a bed of one’s own…

— Howard Zinn

“the Crying Grave of Catoosa County.”

— Steve Stockton

“For months, the fifteen-year-old farmboy moved great mounds of earth alongside prisoners, many of whom were worked to death, their bodies buried in the…

— Adrienne Berard

“I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to…

— Anonymous

“There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for the lullaby truths of life every night for a tranquil slumber.”

— Munia Khan

“As a sad, grey dawn broke over the hillside he came upon a ruined cottage [named Broken-Heart Farm] which did not so much seem…

— Susanna Clarke