Postcards Quote by Lisa Jewell

“She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.”

— Celeste Ng

“You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.”

— Eula Biss

“It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places.”

— C.S. Lewis

“She had caused to surround us the very atmosphere of "home," so that however far we traveled, however strange the territory, I was "home"…

— Walter Wangerin, Jr

“...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.”

— Susan Örnbratt

“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Home was each other. Not walls, but the adventure of the search to find them.”

— Julie Berry

“Besides, she has always a house full of people; and, though they are chiefly fools and coxcombs, yet there is some pleasure in cutting…

— Fanny Burney

“Then she set it aside. (She set everything aside. There was some hollow place inside her that few and grew.)”

— Genevieve Valentine

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

— Anne Ursu

“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.”

— Arthur Ransome

“She rattled around that huge house, growing more and more used to being on her own, resenting his presence more and more when he…

— Jane Green