Quote by Thomas Nashe

“Gentlemen are often invited to stay in other people's houses. Rooms hardly ever are.”

— Susanna Clarke

“The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These…

— Jill Talbot

“The man is a cabin, poorly kept.”

— Donald Revell

“How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure.”

— Basith

“This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“But it is in the rooms, not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait…

— C.S. Lewis

“Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to…

— Robert Hayden

“about the woods. Nobody understood why he chose to live alone tucked in the forest instead of in the free wheeling dorms near the…

— Christy Hayes

“The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies.”

— Yann Martel

“His room was like an explorer's den, a lair of furs, the cave of a magician.”

— Anaïs Nin