Quote by Stephen King

“Abruptly he started the car and put it in gear and drove away, trying not to look back. And of course he did, and…

— Stephen King

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“I imagined that the building carried the sadness of the women who'd been trapped there...I didn't see them--there was no visible mass of ghosts…

— Claire Messud

“It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“They were open but empty-looking, like the windows of a house no one lived in. At”

— Jennifer Egan

“They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.”

— Erin Bow

“The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.”

— Carla H Krueger

“IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those damn birds…

— Yawatta Hosby

“They had become muffled and distant then anyway. This happened in those first days after the wave. I couldn't find their faces, they quivered…

— Sonali Deraniyagala

“There was a crash. Ceiling panels rained down, lights exploding. They had run from the building, had run through the courtyard, and there were…

— Hugh Howey

“As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived…

— Daphne du Maurier