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“The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we’d left, had seeped into the wood and…

— Ava Dellaira

“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and continuous rain,…

— Marcel Proust

“What he wanted was colours which would appear stronger and clearer in artificial light. He did not particularly care if they looked crude or…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He could sit in the dust and dark of the carriage house and rot for the rest of his life. Clearly that's what he…

— Kristin Bailey

“Skeletons of houses loomed around me, their broken faces screaming in pain from the torture that they had had to endure and the murders…

— Rebbecca Ethington

“He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark…

— John Milton

“He lived in a huge, ridiculous, doodad-covered, trash-filled two-story horror of a house that stumbled, staggered, and dribbled right up to the edge of…

— John Bellairs

“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“As soon as he had left the room and walked into the air, he knew that he would never return and for the first…

— Peter Ackroyd

“The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something…

— Leslye Walton