#houses

Adora changed her color scheme from peach to yellow. She promised me she'd take me to the fabric store so I can make new coverings to match. This dollhouse is my fancy." She almost made it sound natural, my fancy. The words floated out of her mouth sweet and round like butterscotch, murmured with just a tilt of her head, but the phrase was definitely my mother's. Her little doll, learning to speak just like Adora. "Looks like you do a very good job with it," I said, and motioned a weak wave good-bye. "Thank you," she said. Her eyes focused on my room in the dollhouse. A small finger poked the bed. "I hope you enjoy your stay here," she murmured into the room, as if she were addressing a tiny Camille no one could see. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#families #insecurity #parental-approval #scary-houses #nature

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done. ↗

— Felix Adler

#bake #because #bread #build #done

I like cosy, intimate houses. ↗

— Tori Amos

#i #intimate #like

I want to get out of the major opera houses. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#houses #i #major #opera #out

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#built #houses #live #look #preferred

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#acquiring #anything #been #evils #greed

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#agency #average #efficient #energy #environmental protection

We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#coverage #houses #kind #live #obsessed

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#art #art form #attendance #ever #form

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one. ↗

— Bjork

#easy #here #houses #i #made