House
Quotes - The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it
“A
house without books is like a room without windows.”
―
Horace Mann
“Love
is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”
―
Lady Gaga
“Nature
is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
―
Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“No
live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of
absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill
House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it
had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls
continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly
shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and
whatever walked there, walked alone.”
―
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“But
the plans were on display…”
“On
display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s
the display department.”
“With
a flashlight.”
“Ah,
well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So
had the stairs.”
“But
look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,”
said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing
cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of
the Leopard.”
―
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Claire
stretched out against the wall and kissed it. "Glad to see you, too,"
she whispered, and pressed her cheek against the smooth surface. It almost felt
like it hugged her back.
"Dude,
it's a house," Shane said from behind her. "Hug somebody who cares.”
―
Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
“Oh,
I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly
sad.”
―
Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
“We
all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the
upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us
trapped, locked in it.”
―
Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
“The
ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The
road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was
inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with
crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt
wind from the sea.”
―
Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
“May
your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with
Beauty.”
―
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
“I
should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer,
the house allows one to dream in peace.”
―
Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space
“The
House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is
not the means to an end.”
―
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
“When
I did finally speak, I surprised myself by saying exactly what was on my mind.
“You must hate me.”
She
stared a long time at me.
I
did,” she said slowly, “But it’s mostly myself I hate.”
Don’t,”
I said.
And
why the hell shouldn’t I hate myself? Everybody else hates me.”
―
Kristin Cast, Untamed
“I
don’t want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here
and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in
school. Now I’m none of those things, and I’m a human who has scary visions and
don’t know what to do about any of it.”
―
P.C. Cast
“What-what
do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.
The
voice cackled maliciously.
'To
curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother
Night!'
"Only
a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good...I thought we were in
trouble.”
―
Rick Riordan
“i
don't
wear
makeup for others
the
same way
i
don't
decorate
my
house for others.
this
is my
home
&
everything
i do
is
for
me.”
―
Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
“I
don’t want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here
and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in
school. Now I’m none of those things, and I’m a human who has scary visions and
don’t know what to do about any of it.”
―
Kristin Cast, Untamed
“You
become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers
the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people
come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You
let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for
a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply
get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t
have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic
like a beggar in the desert.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
“Sometimes
it's exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself,
remember that I've lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn't kill me then
and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house
isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life,
it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your
body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart.
When it's gone, nothing is whole again.”
―
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
“It
[Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as
Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.”
―
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“He's
waiting for yu, young queen.'
Shocked,
I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'
The
Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath
probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I
speak.”
―
P.C. Cast, Awakened
“What
is a home if not the first place you learn to run from?”
―
Clementine von Radics
