Gate after gate seemed to close with gentle finality behind me. Innumerable beadles were fitting innumerable keys into well-oiled locks; the treasure-house was being made secure for another night.
Virginia Woolf
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen





Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.
Emily Dickinson
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.
Carl Sagan
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier
Photos: Filipa Moreira da Cruz