The Haunting Of Maddy Clare Quotes
"The air was swollen with cottony drizzle that did not quite fall to the ground, and pressed my cheeks and eyelashes."
"Temporary girls were easy targets for any kind of behavior from a man, and we had nearly no recourse without getting fired."
"It was girls like me who thought twice—about going back out in our only good set of clothes, about meeting unknown men in unknown places. About everything."
"What I need done may seem rather strange."
"I don’t have an opinion about ghosts. It’s people I don’t believe in, I suppose."
"I did not know what to make of it. Mr. Gellis seemed young, intellectual, and even eccentric."
"I could not remember the last time anyone had spoken to me with care, or kindness."
"I would have to take the risk, as he said. I could do it."
"The prospect was so strange, so unlike any job I had ever thought to have, that I could hardly fathom it."
"We’re frightened of them, but most of them are simply—lost."
"I suppose I can’t guarantee anything, though. This is the paranormal, after all."
"I knew what I saw. I simply know. If you ever see an apparition, a true one, you will know what I mean."
"Happy people did not leave ghosts; or perhaps they left quiet ghosts, who sat in their favorite corners or wandered the banks of their favorite streams, never bothering the living."
"Despite our brief acquaintance, and our mutual antipathy, I still felt the loss of it."
"It would cut any man. Even I knew that."
"There was a knot deep in my stomach, bruised and painful, a deep tug of longing that would not go away."
"He is still the most beautiful thing I had ever seen."
"One could know this only if one had seen him at other times, when his passionate obsession was roused."
"It goes to show that money, especially new money, simply does not equal class."
"I was starting to see how clever he was—with his clean good looks, he could hide a skillful interview behind the blandness of polite conversation."
"She looked only at Mr. Gellis, as if she had decided there was no one else in the room."
"I myself know them only slightly. They've never made much effort, I have to say."
"The story went something like this. As Mrs. Clare had told us, Maddy had appeared one rainy night on the Clares’ doorstep."
"I did it mostly to keep her near, to keep her company, like."
"I don’t suppose I’m as kind as I could be. I warned you when we met, I’m not much used to female company, so I must apologize for my boorishness."
"You think you’re a strong one, don’t you? I could take you on."
"I would take it, then, that Maddy did not much like my little speech."
"She was in hell—that’s the only truth that matters."
"What else is there to do, Sarah? I could go home and measure men’s suits and continue to have screaming nightmares every night in my old bedroom."
"Alistair has no one close—not really, you know."
"I could have done that when the war ended."
"Crows," she said again, as if we had disbelieved her. "It was only a few at first. But now there are so many. They make such a noise all night long."
"I didn’t need field glasses to feel uneasy, looking at the writhing mass of black as it moved and twitched."
"This is a much stronger manifestation. I’ll grant you that."
"I snuck a glimpse at their pantry," Matthew was saying. "Really, Alistair. I wasn’t surprised by the mice at all."
"How different I was, I thought, from the girl who had left London."
"Eventually, I dozed. And dreamed about crows."
"I wondered if he was even considering the danger, but when he looked up, I knew he wasn’t."
"We’re going to the barn," Alistair said with absolute confidence.
"Mrs. Clare wants us to rid her of this ghost. I’ve decided I can’t do that unless I experience it."
"It’s battle fatigue, son," he said with rough gentleness. "I can always tell."
"Something waited on the path, and if I turned and ran toward it now, it would grab me, and my God, it would—"
"Hopeless, it was hopeless. I was lost in the woods like a hunted rabbit and I would never go home again, never be safe again."
"I fell to my knees. So I would die, then; I no longer cared."
"I was in my bed at the inn. 'You’re awake,' said a soft voice."
"I watched her tall figure emerge, lithe and careless, from the gloom."
"I've regretted it every day since, you know. Regretted that I didn’t take the chance and dance with Alistair all night."
"She was just a maid. But servants are people, too, don’t you think?"
"My husband believed Maddy was dead before she even came to Falmouth House."
"Maybe she can’t be blamed, but I’m not running like a scared rabbit."
"My only hope was to placate Maddy with what she had asked, and hope that protection would not be necessary."
"He was not following. His eyes had glazed at the memory of the grave."
"She never left the house in all those years. None of us had seen her, and she hadn’t seen us."
"After what happened in the woods that day, I couldn’t stand it. I was thinking of killing myself. Instead I enlisted, to get away from him."
"I watched it on her face—like she’d opened a door and seen something inside that tore her heart out."
"I’ll find the constable. This can all be over."
I’m sorry," I said, before I turned to go. "We all are," he said to my back. "All of us.
"He’ll kill me if he thinks I know. You don’t know him. He’ll kill me. I swear to God he will."
"You have no idea, young Miss Piper. You simply have no idea what a hell my marriage has been."
"I cried until the pain overtook me in a sort of fog, and I laid my face against the floor."
"You are trespassing on my property, you know."
"It was a lark. We’d had too much to drink and we wanted a bit of fun."
"My God, you did know," I said, shocked, for despite myself I had hoped it wasn’t true.
Just stay still, for God’s sake," he said. "Just stay still!
"I saw her briefly, walking away from the house. She was headed toward the woods, the wind lifting her long hair from its heavy place on her back."
"He’s wild for you. The way he looks at you when you’re not looking..."