“in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.”
“Our country is not so clean.......because of people f***......so we help to clean our country or in our house......so our country or our house is clean.....”
“Houses don't clean themselves, she'd mutter. Sometimes she cleaned the bits she had just cleaned. It wasn't like living in a house, but more a question hovering over the surfaces.”
“There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.”
“ Bad form, Regin! Wrong car."Immediately after, the house shook again. "Oh, much better!" Nix assured them. "That was Bowen's!”
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”