T Quotes
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“The house fills with the particular atmosphere that accompanies peacefully sleeping children: a rich narcotic silence that creeps down the stairs and twines itself around the table legs.”
“The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.”
Source: The Celtic Twilight
“The House GOP continues to fail to address the real & serious issues thatthousands of families face each day.”
“The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for life. It had sat unopened for so long, suffocating in the silence, it's memories blanketed by a thick layer of dust.”
Source: Husk
“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.”
Source: Saffy's Angel
“The House had a taste for romance novels. Nesta stayed up later than she should have to finish the one it had left the day before, and when she returned to her room that evening, another was waiting.
'Don't tell me you somehow read these?' She leafed through the volume on her nightstand.
In answer, two more books thumped on the surface. Each one utterly filthy.
Nesta let out a small chuckle. 'It must get awfully dull up here.'
A third book plopped atop the others.
Nesta laughed again, a rusty, hoarse sound. She couldn't remember the last time she'd laughed. A true, belly-deep laugh.
Maybe before her mother had died. She'd certainly had nothing to laugh about once they'd fallen into poverty.
Nesta nodded toward the desk. 'No dinner tonight?'
Her bedroom door only swung open to reveal the dimly lit hallway.
'I've had enough of him for one day.' She'd barely been able to speak to Cassian for the rest of their lesson, unable to stop thinking of how he'd put up a wall without her so much as saying a word, anticipating that she would go after him, assuming that she was so awful she couldn't have a normal conversation. That she'd mock him about his mother and their pain.
'I'd rather stay here.'
The door opened wider.
Nesta sighed. Her stomach ached with hunger. 'You're as much a busybody as the rest of them,' she muttered, and aimed for the dining room.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“The house had an exuberant chaos to it. Crowded, but nothing like my dads’s. Everything had its place here.”
Source: What Lies in the Woods
“The house had claimed many victims in its two centuries. Ate them, consumed, and devoured. Tortured souls like idle playthings. Terrorized visitors by the whim of its moods.”
Source: Insomnia
“The House had dinner waiting on her desk, along with a book. Apparently, it had noted her request for a book the other day and deemed The Great War too dull. The title of this one was suitably smutty. 'I didn't know you had dirty taste,' Nesta said wryly.
The House only responded by running a bath.
'Dinner, bath, and a book,' Nesta said aloud, shaking her head in something close to awe. 'It's perfect. Thank you.'
The House said nothing, but when she stepped into her bathroom, she found that it wasn't an ordinary bath. The House had added an assortment of oils that smelled of rosemary and lavender. She breathed in the heady, beautiful scent and sighed.
'I think you might be my only friend,' Nesta said, then groaned her way into the tub's welcoming warmth.
The House was apparently so pleased by her words that as soon as she lay back, a tray appeared across the width of the tub. Laden with a massive piece of chocolate cake.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.”
“The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm exploring has to bounce off the walls. It has to go in and out of different rooms. If the room is not in order, then I can't distinguish which is which, and that really drives me crazy.”
“The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.”
“The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.”
“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”
“The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory.”
Source: Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
“The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent.”
Source: Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
“The house in Chappaqua is up for sale, ... and you can get it for a bargain on Wednesday.”
“The house is a body, a body houses souls.”
Source: A House Is a Body
“The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits
“The house is a factory.”
“The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.”
Source: Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence
“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.”
Source: Saving June
“The house is in moderate condition, but when we do the usual dance of exploring the price range, the agent clarifies that the owner has high expectations.
The owner interjects and I hear the full story from the man himself. ‘My house has been valued at a million,’ he says with a grin. ‘Though I’ve been told it might be worth more than that. Would you believe it only cost me a year’s income back in the eighties? Had three children and never had to worry about money or a place to live. And now the value of it just keeps going up! It’s unbelievable what people have to pay for houses these days. Never would have imagined it.’ He cackles at this, as if it’s the funniest thing in the world.”
Source: A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir
“The House is in the house" Chapter 38”
“The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.”
“The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?" 'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.”
Source: Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella
“The house is not made of values. It is made of indifferent bricks.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.”
“The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books. I'm not making any judgement. It's just the sort of thing I can't help but notice.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“The house is spelled to take care of you- merely wish or speak for things, and it'll be done.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“The house is still straight and tall and proud, an architectural oddity rendered regal by the slow dissolve of all that lies below it. It looms, like some great beast of prey waiting for the perfect moment to strike and take that which was always meant to be its due. It lurks, a shadow in the reeds, a silent scream in the night.”
Source: In the Shadow of Spindrift House
“The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.”
“The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.”
“The house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies!”
“The house may have been impressive in stature, but having gasped as they drove up the driveway, she had been disappointed by the interior. It was so bare. Lacking in things. She was mystified by this invisible wealth and the austerity of the house.
She didn’t understand Mrs Zvobgo, she was rich but chose to live, in Tsitsi’s opinion, like a pauper. She was clearly uninterested in buying things. Maybe it was because she had never known poverty. Tsitsi on the other hand felt she was well versed in it.
Tsitsi, unlike Mrs Zvobgo, wasn’t above noveau riche vulgarities. She didn’t want any sort of English boarding school minimalism. She wanted more. She wanted things. Things . Things. Things. Many of them. That much she was willing to admit. She made a private decision then that she would change this when she became the woman of this household. She knew they said wealth whispered and rich shouted, but what good was having all that they did if she had to keep it like some sort of secret?”
Source: Sweet Medicine
“The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.”
“The House of Belonging is your birthright; it is part of your Happily Everafter, whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with or without children. The blueprints of your House of Belonging exist as spiritual energy and hover over your head-ready, when you are, to be pulled down from Heaven to shelter your Soul on Earth.”
“The House of Caltheos has two curses…the power to unite our
kingdom, and the duty to follow through on it.”
Source: The Crimson Spire
“The House of Change... is bigger inside than out.”
Source: The Neverending Story
“The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.”
Source: The House of Commons at Work
“The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?”
Source: Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].
“The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.”
“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
“The house of every one is to him as his castle.”
“The house of God is always open and that is where he decided to walk to.”
Source: Tajrish
“The house of God on Earth is not a cement, or a wooden, or a steel, or a marble building built by man. The house of God on Earth is the grass, the trees, the mountains, the seas, the human heart.”
“The house of God should be the gateway to heaven.”
“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
Source: The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts
“The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.”