Shirley Jackson, The Haunting Of Hill House Quotes
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.
I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
Fear, " the doctor said, "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.
When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.
My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?
