"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

"There's no great loss without some small gain."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)

"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
— John Irving

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

""I eventually had to go down to the cellar..."
"That's the display department."
"...with a torch"
"The lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"Well, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes. The plans were 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)

""I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now."
I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon. "
— P.C. Cast (Untamed)

"Nuns freak me out."
— P.C. Cast (Untamed)

"
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

"“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)

"No art is possible without a dance with death."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed"
— Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)

"It's never Lupus."
— Gregory House

"You's a bad elf, Dobby.""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Seven years of college down the drain."
— John Belushi

"There is one other book,. that can teach you everything you need to know about life...it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

" 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."
— Siddhārtha Gautama (The Dhammapada)

"She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.

from "The Lady of the Haunted House" "
— Angela Carter (The Bloody Chamber)

"Someones going to be miserable sometime, accept it it's how I stay so happy."
— Dr. Gregory House

"You can't hide from misery."
— House M.D.

"Here’s how to become a great artist. First, get miserable. Misery drives you to become a great artist, but the art does nothing for your misery, which drives you to drugs, which makes you a lousy artist, and this is not lousy."
— Hugh Laurie as House

"A woman may be sexually attracted to many men in her life, but she can only truly adore about fifty."
— Sovrana Sostrata.

"Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven."
— Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House)

"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)

""I was right. But more importantly, you were wrong." "
— Dr. House

"Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men may be coarsened and hardened into a brute by habit. Blood and power intoxicate; coarseness and depravity are developed; the mind and the heart are tolerant of the most abnormal things, till at last they come to relish them. The man and the citizen is lost for ever in the tyrant, and the return to human dignity, to repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"What matters is we're all going to DIE maybe.
"
— cant remember

"...You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. --Mr. Woodcourt
"
— Charles Dickens

"And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes?" --Rick

"Indeed I can. What am I but another dreamer, Rick?" --Guardian
"
— Charles Dickens

"kill trhe beast before it kills you"
— Thaddeus Stevens

"LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes — gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if the day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ’prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.

- Bleak House"
— Charles Dickens

"...if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."
— Charles Dickens (Bleak House)

"" If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours. "
— Truman Capote
"
— Truman Capote

"I can't make Pa change and be neat, so I'll have to change and be dirty. Been peace in this house ever since."
— Ma Kettle

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

"
— William Pitt

"...You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. --Mr. Woodcourt
"
— Charles Dickens

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"And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes?" --Rick

"Indeed I can. What am I but another dreamer, Rick?" --Guardian"
— Charles Dickens