"House of Leaves" Quotes
A young family moves into a house that's larger on the inside than it is on the outside.
horror | 705 pages | Published in 2000
Quotes
This much is true: the world is bigger than you think.
No one is ever alone in the house.
This is not for you.
Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else.
Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes.
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
The more there is, the less you see.
The darkness will always find you. It’s a truth that’s been waiting for you.
It's not the house that's haunted. It's your son.
Fiction is about empathy - about imagining yourself in another’s place.
