The Haunting Of Hill House Quotes
"I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster."
"The house was vile...it was diseased; get away from here at once."
"It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope."
"Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."
"In this dreary place it is our duty to look as bright as possible."
"You don’t go around expecting things like this to happen."
"Fellow babe in the woods, let’s go exploring."
"Agreed to with whom, I wonder? Count Dracula?"
"The sun went down smoothly behind the hills."
"We are not children trying to frighten one another."
"We never know where our courage is coming from."
"There are popular theories, which discount the eerie, the mysterious."
"It seemingly dislikes letting its guests get away."
"We will retire to our little boudoir for coffee and a little of the good brandy."
"A house can hardly stand for eighty years without seeing some of its inhabitants die within its walls."
"Nothing in this house moves until you look away."
"I had not decided how best to prepare the three of you for Hill House."
"Eleanor? Theodora said nearby, and she heard the sound of the doctor’s feet running along the veranda. "This damnable house," Luke said. "You have to watch it every minute."
"I’m really all right," Eleanor said, very much embarrassed, and she walked with deliberate steps along the veranda to the front door, which was closed. "I thought we left it open," she said with a little shake in her voice.
"After my vigil last night, I feel the need of a rest this afternoon, and you," he said to Eleanor, "would do well to lie down for an hour."
"Eleanor did not sleep during the afternoon, although she would have liked to; instead, she lay on Theodora’s bed in the green room and watched Theodora do her nails, chatting lazily, unwilling to let herself perceive that she had followed Theodora into the green room because she had not dared to be alone."
"Luke leaned himself wearily against the wall of the upstairs hall, his head resting against the gold frame of an engraving of a ruin. "I keep thinking of this house as my own future property," he said, "more now than I did before."
"I propose," the doctor said, setting down his napkin, "that we take our coffee in our little parlor. I find that fire very cheerful."
"Coming, mother, coming," Eleanor said, fumbling for the light. "It’s all right, I’m coming." Eleanor, she heard, Eleanor. "Coming, coming," she shouted irritably, "just a minute, I’m coming."
"I am home, she thought, and stopped in wonder at the thought. I am home, I am home, she thought; now to climb."
"It knows my name, it knows my name this time."
"I have broken the spell of Hill House and somehow come inside. I am home, she thought."
"Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why don't they stop me?"
"Hill House itself, not sane, stood against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more."
"Within, its walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."