Quote by Paul Bowles

“Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.”

— Florence King

“Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”

— Libba Bray

“The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Even though I had a history with that house, it didn't matter. You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they…

— Jay Asher

“I couldn't imagine it, living a pristine life in this big Georgian house and everything. It seemed heinous. So I left him. I thought…

— Sarah Rayner

“Without a doubt. But imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.”

— Amor Towles

“The house must be a sanctuary.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“And then it turned out that the House was alive, that it too could love.”

— Mariam Petrosyan

“And he's sorry he ever doubted the House. She's the one. One of the ones. His shining girls.”

— Lauren Beukes

“The other Houses don’t know that my House still exists.”

— Josephine Angelini

“It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.”

— Regina O'Melveny