Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“Cavernous windows opened in a silent scream on the face of the Gothic house that tilted on the crest of Foster Hill. Its gables…

— Jaime Jo Wright

“door as quietly as he could and gazed around at the darkened windows of his neighbors’ houses, very nearly”

— Brian Harmon

“He pulled the door closed and the wind became just the slightest rush of air against the rolled-up windows. There was suddenly a pleasant…

— Alice McDermott

“He stepped fully into the house. The air inside was cool on his skin. He turned, expecting the front door to close on its…

— Robert Liparulo

“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

“It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised…

— Michael Cunningham

“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”

— E.M. Forster

“Sometimes in life, out of nowhere, a door opens.”

— Eric Brown

“Last year there was a shadow of a man in the upstairs porch. The doors were closed in the middle of the day with…

— Pinkberry

“The metal door began to roll open as she held her breath. Its parts creaked like the bones of a giant roused from his…

— Angela Panayotopulos