"The Haunting of Hill House" Quotes

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it, or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

It was as though part of the house were angry at being deserted, and resented the intrusion of the new people.

I am really not accustomed to seeing expressions like that on the faces of my guests in my own house.

Hill House has a reputation for insistent hospitality; it seemingly dislikes being unoccupied, and frowns on anyone who comes in to live there.

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Some houses are born bad.