Quote by M.J. Ware

“I wanted to avoid slippage.”

— Hari Kunzru

“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

“You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.”

— Jodi Picoult

“She did not want to go but understood that I was uneasy, that I felt spotlighted here, that I was not much of a…

— William Landay

“He hadn't spoken a word since they'd left the manor except to snap out directions, telling her which way to turn at a fork…

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Anne Ursu

“When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to…

— Robert Hayden

“There was so much to talk about that nothing was said. It was warm sitting there on the steps. Everything seemed to be so…

— Tove Jansson

“She entered the manor, but couldn’t help feeling that she was trying to hold together a carpet as dozens of people pulled out threads…

— Brandon Sanderson

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”

— Ransom Riggs

“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