Quotes of: House Keyword

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

The Giant's House

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

Glass Houses

Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.

Glass Houses

It's possible to walk out of your house with "local" footsteps, printing them one by one till they go on to make "global" consequences! Go, make a safe journey!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne

Ghost Town

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

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

My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.

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

The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.

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

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

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

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.

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

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

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

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

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

Cold. Foggy cold. Soaking through fabric, biting into the skin, clutching the bones until flesh crawled. There was no moonlight, only orange, smoky lanterns, and the light made the snow glitter and turned the shadows into blood.

House of Corruption

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

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

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

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

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

House of Sand and Fog

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

The Haunting of Hill House

It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change.

House Harkonnen

The Little Drummer Boy" was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.

How to Build a House

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

Heartbreak House

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

The Haunting of Hill House