“A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.” WayHomeIllusionGardenSimplicitySpendingInnocentCuriousCashConsuming Book:A Woman Talking Source: A Woman Talking
“Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.” LifeHelpingHomeDesignIllusionSymbolsFallenGoodsCashNow And ThenCoincidenceParallelsSalesman Author:Glen Duncan
“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.” IfsMadeHomeWould BeHouseExistenceKnowingDangerousIllusionEverydayGlassesHolesTowersEveryday LifeCentreBricksCompassHeadlinesIllusoryMeaninglessness Book:The Woman in the Dunes Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?” IfsMenHomeHappensOrderForceMarriedIllusion Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.” MayHomeAgeGirlFoundPoorCasesIllusionGoldenMessiahGolden AgeFetch Book:THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION Source: THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION