"The Turn of the Screw" Quotes

The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear.

The imagination – of the child as we may call it – had, in the manner of children's minds, been led to the desire for change, a desire at any rate attributed quickly enough to all the other forces.

I felt that I had been looking at him for years and years, and that I now saw him as I had never seen. Why had I never seen him before?

I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most lovable, the appeal of whose helplessness had suddenly become only too explicit, a deep, constant ache of one's own committed heart.

I felt that I must take his hand, and though I had not yielded an inch, that I must end by doing so.

I do, I do, I do see it – I see it!

I could only get on, and on, and the more I got on, the more I saw the back of the man with the hammer.

I used to wonder at it. I remember, I used to wonder – I used to ask myself what it was like. And all I can say is that – it's not a bit what I thought.

But the matter had passed, for the time, out of my hands. It was in the hands of one of the others.

There were moments when, by an irresistible impulse, I found myself catching them up and pressing them to my heart.