Old man Quote by Willa Cather

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices.…

— Nora Roberts

“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in…

— Neil Gaiman

“The whole house, its very walls, was impregnated with a smell of vitality that he was unused to. He thought about his own apartment,…

— Paolo Giordano

“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

“He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“He was in search of a story, nothing more. He shouldn't be thinking about her bedroom at all. But, in a matter of minutes,…

— Aria Kane

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“In his imagination he had thought that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in…

— John Boyne

“I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to…

— Neil Gaiman

“He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended…

— Susanna Clarke

“To the Paris apartment, which for him was synonymous with promiscuity, he preferred a house with a garden, in countryside which was not really…

— Benoît Peeters