1,060 Quotes About House
- Author Gaston Bachelard
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I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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- Author Kristin Cast
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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.
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- Author Rick Riordan
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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.
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- Author Amanda Lovelace
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i don'twear makeup for othersthe same wayi don'tdecoratemy house for others.this is myhome&everything i dois forme.
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- Author Susanna Clarke
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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.
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- Author Siddhārtha Gautama
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Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.
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- Author Shirley Jackson
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Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
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- Author Jenny Offill
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The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. A home has a perimeter. But sometimes our perimeter was breached by neighbors, by Girl Scouts, by Jehovah’s Witnesses. I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.
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- Author Hilary McKay
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The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.
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