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“The apartment was merely a collection of looted, hollowed out shades of paint.”

— Abby Slovin

“They could see the mansion above them. It was a large square house, painted white.”

— Gertrude Chandler Warner

“The room was plainly but adequately furnished; she noted the shower stall in the bathroom beyond. Actually, she would have preferred a tub, but…

— Robert Bloch

“Last time she had been here, the room had been pastel, romantic and soft. Now it was icily white. It was urban, out of…

— Caroline B. Cooney

“Draw a floor plan of the house you lived in as a child, including all the floors.”

— Jean J. Jenson

“The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These…

— Jill Talbot

“It was one of those buildings that you don't so much as look at as bathe in.”

— Bill Bryson

“The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was…

— Hugh Laurie

“rooms. They were upstairs. At the back of the shop a spiral staircase led up to a balcony overlooking the dresses below. A dozen…

— Angela Roquet

“The whole house, its very walls, was impregnated with a smell of vitality that he was unused to. He thought about his own apartment,…

— Paolo Giordano

“The girl looked about her. “’ Tis a pretty room,” she said without thinking, and then wondered how that could be, when it was…

— Elizabeth George Speare

“On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant…

— Rhidian Brook