Book Quote by Madeleine Roux

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract…

— Marguerite Duras

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in…

— Arundhati Roy

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like…

— Susanna Clarke

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

— Stephen Gardiner

The House is in the house" Chapter 38

— Rick Riordan

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices.…

— Nora Roberts

“I've noticed that houses take on the personality of the people who live in them. I'm not sure how it happens, but they become…

— Shannon Wiersbitzky

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

— John Edgar Wideman

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

— E. B. White

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will…

— Jane Smiley