On Moving Quotes

“There is something of a congruence here between my grandfather's terror propelling him across an ocean to America and mine and my husband's rushing us into a three-room apartment in Jersey City. In fact, each of my moves is remotely connected to feeling my life or well-being was threatened.”
― Louise DeSalvo, On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again

“It is only familiarity, [Bonnard] seems to say, that can elicit such a profound relationship to our living spaces, but only if we see these places as if for the first time.”
― Louise DeSalvo, On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again

“The effects of moving are experienced in the body, in the imagination, in the realm of desire. What the eye sees, what the body feels, what the heart yearns for, what remains and what has been lost -- these are difficult at first to describe.”
― Louise DeSalvo, On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again

“Lady Slane wants to rent [the house] and asks the owner Mr Bucktrout, whether he believes the house will suit her. He replies, 'Ah, but the question is, will you suit IT?”
― Louise DeSalvo, On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again