Quotes of: Affordable-housing Keyword

I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

House of Dolls

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

The Haunting of Hill House

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.

The Haunting of Hill House

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

House Harkonnen

By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.

The Hundred-Year House

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

How to Be a Hermit, or a Bachelor Keeps House

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Heartbreak House

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

How to Be a Hermit, or a Bachelor Keeps House

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

How to Build a House

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

I am opposed to Naperville. It's all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class America.

Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

Breakfast with Buddha

Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the dings and scars. We've all got 'em.

A Beautiful Fall

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Bleak House

Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.

In Bloom

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says. The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.

Boy Nobody

You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.

Beauty Queens

A brick could be used in place of a diamond on a wedding ring. Your wife's probably going to divorce you and take the house anyway, so you might as well give her the first brick. 

Brick

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

The Big Sleep