#house

Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse

A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse-novels #sookie-stackhouse

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. ↗

— Tori Amos

#father #house #minister #music #our

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#ask #down #fear #goes #house

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. ↗

— Adam Ant

#back #did #doing #east #gardening

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ↗

— Sai Baba

#back #becomes #built #foundations #ground

If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#house #i #out

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#creation #fun #good #good thing #house

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. ↗

— John Adams

#children #consented #fate #give #house

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#mirrors #reflections #seconds #shrinking #silence