The house was never the point.

Her freedom is.

Chapter 16 — What a House Is

I have thought a great deal, in the two years since, about the word home, because Luca took a house from me and, in doing so, accidentally taught me that he had never been able to take a home from me at all, because the two are not the same thing, and I had spent years confusing them.

A house is a structure.