Old house Quote by Shirley Jackson

“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 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

“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next…

— Jennifer Egan

“I’m sorry I took so long,” she said. “Your mother wanted me to look at something.” “A new hat.” “How do you know?” “When…

— Robert Newman

“Daemon was standing in the doorway of my bedroom. Hair messy from sleep, flannel pajama bottoms rumpled. No shirt. Three feet plus of snow…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Whoa, son,” said Atticus. “Nobody’s about to make you go anywhere but to bed pretty soon. I’m just going over to tell Miss Rachel…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“A hall to die in, and men to bury me. I thank you, my lords … but I spit upon your pity.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I can remember when the air was clean and the sex was dirty." -George Burns”

— George Burns

“The sun flooded Livvie's apartment. I lay in her bed, smothered in throw pillows of various colors and shapes (seriously ladies, what the fuck…

— C.J. Roberts

“How had I fetched up into this strange new life, where drunk foreigners shouted around me in the night, and all my clothes were…

— Donna Tartt

“I took a last nervous glance at myself in the mirror. I’d brushed the thick waves of my hair until they shimmered down my…

— Lesley Livingston

“Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to…

— Mark Twain