Between the world we seeand the things we fear, there are doors. When they are opened, nightmares become reality.

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.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

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.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a journey that lasted a long time: how to love a God who hurts you.

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.

Time is but a destination.

the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power

Love is a spell created by mortals

So the world was nuts and he'd suddenly discovered a kink for geeks. There were worse things.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

That's what happens when bodies start slapping.

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.