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“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty as if…

— Arthur Golden

“I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city--that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place…

— Laurie Lee

“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to…

— Gary Shteyngart

“The house squatted around them, vast, empty, unnecessary and indestructible. You had to be a fat busy Victorian family to expand enough to fill…

— Penelope Lively

“The air of those rooms was saturated with the fine bouquet of a silence so nourishing, so succulent, that I never went into them…

— Marcel Proust

“It was an intensely lonely moment, like all of eighth grade condensed into one claustrophobic second.”

— Lisa Rowe Fraustino

“The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them…

— Thomas Bernhard

“When I eventually moved to a smaller home, it felt cozy, like having a pair of jeans that fit me just right—no wasted living…

— Lisa J. Shultz

“Most houses were crammed with immovable objects in their proper places, and each object told you what to do - here you ate, here…

— Ian McEwan

“This bleak housing-scheme, designed by sadists who’d never had to live anywhere near it, had a heart which had shrivelled but refused to stop…

— Ian Rankin

“Big, bulbous, ruddy buildings with vast ballrooms, grand, angular staircases, and as many turrets and crenellations as a recreational condom. The”

— Douglas Adams

“It was like being caught in a meat grinder; a brief moment of total chaos, punctuated by random hard blows to the body and…

— Diana Gabaldon