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“He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for…

— K. Ritz

“Inside, in the servants' part of the house, the half-clad domestics were talking in low whispers to each other. Old Mrs. Leaf was crying…

— Oscar Wilde

“The long-ago days - the days of Mother and Bone and the shed - have become fuzzy and have blended with images of Moon,…

— Ann M. Martin

“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.”

— Jane Austen

“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful…

— Louise Penny

“Anna thought about the men outside on the gallery. She was glad they were there; finding them smoking and talking quietly had been comforting,…

— Howard Bahr

“A few of the villagers began to stone us and our children.”

— Heidi Baker

“All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being…

— Terry Pratchett

“On the main street of one village she passed a vast house, pillared and walled, with shutters over the windows and a pair of…

— Shirley Jackson

“Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.”

— Armistead Maupin