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?

She wants her cup of stars.

You know what it's like, " said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.

It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself!

I don't know what to do, I want to die but you're making me stay alive, I'm not sure if I should betray you and do it or move on and push through it.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

you plan to fail if you fail to plan

It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.