Quote by Mary Mycio

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

— Abby Slovin

“Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and our predecessors too, do not…

— Heather Day Gilbert

“This apartment is acting like nothing has changed. Everything has changed. I tell the walls he's gone.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Incidentally, it seems that ‘apartment’ has finally taken over from ‘flat’; I fancy they’ll soon have ‘closets’ rather than wardrobes. Anyway,”

— John Humphrys

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

— Sharon Shinn

“I could wallpaper a room with rejection letters.”

— Robin Moore

“Abandoned buildings are like abandoned people. They grow bitter and start to keep bad company.”

— Louise Welsh

“THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of…

— Jean Rhys

“Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted shades to…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I sat and looked up at the blue sky and across at the blank windows for a long time. A woman I’d once cared…

— Robert B. Parker

“all over the world...the past was being wiped out by condominiums.”

— Elmore Leonard

“How could the apartment have seemed so permanent and solid-looking when it was only a stage set, waiting to be struck and carried away…

— Donna Tartt