Front door Quote by Nancy Mitford

“Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.”

— Sarah E Wright

“But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there had a…

— Dan Baum

“The living room was still dark, because of the heavy growth of the shrubbery the owner had allowed to mask the windows. I put…

— Raymond Chandler

“I saw no reason I could not live out my days in Upper Biddleton as a ruined woman. After all, that sort of reputation…

— Amanda Quick

“As I walked down the extremely narrow hall of my not-so-mobile home, passing over the pale yellow linoleum curling up so that it no…

— Michael Lister

“He shut the door behind him and set about locking many dead bolts before finally sliding the chain across. "Tough neighborhood ?" I asked.…

— Karina Halle

“He was particulary drawn to these two clerks by the fact that they both had crooked noses, one bent to the left and the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“country road on the day they first viewed the property.  She had taken one look at it as they drove into the driveway and…

— Michael Bunker

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman…

— Charles Palliser

“The door flew open, revealing a wrinkled, forward-thrusting face wreathed with a nimbus of wispy white hair, a face resembling nothing so much as…

— Lyndsay Faye

“I was like a woman at a drawer, putting away her party dresses between tissue paper, and there he stood in the doorway-- not…

— Rebecca Lee

“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to sunshine. I'd…

— Emma Cline