"We Have Always Lived in the Castle" Quotes

I can't help it when people are frightened.

I am frightened all the time. But I am never frightened at night.

I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

I remember seeing him once before, when I was small, and I had been afraid of him ever since.

I always thought about the house as a whole, and how I could get it all into my mind at one time.

All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my trinkets.

I put a curse on them.

I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

I am an expert on life; I have been dead for seven years.

I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.