Margaret Lee Runbeck - House Quotes

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The people in my house always think if you're talking on the telephone it is their chance to engage your other ear, without your being able to talk back.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

A child's business is an open yard, into which any passer-by may peer curiously. It is no house, not even a glass house. A child's reticence is a little white fence around her business, with a swinging, helpless gate through which grown-ups come in or go out, for there are no locks on your privacy.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

There is nothing that so harasses an architect giving birth to a house as the presence of the prospective owners.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

He worshiped figures, and the laws of figures. They were the only constancy in the universe. Women might scream and fall silent in the snow. Houses might lift up wings of flame and fly into oblivion in a few mad hours. Men might starve and steal and starve again. But figures, untouched and inviolate, held their ineffable sanity.

Margaret Lee Runbeck