The Haunting of Hill House Quotes

“I am home, she thought, and stopped in wonder at the thought. I am home, I am home, she thought; now to climb.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Insist on your cup of stars. Once they have trapped you into being like everyone else, you will never see your cup of stars again.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“insist on your cup of stars”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Ningún organismo vivo puede mantenerse cuerdo durante mucho tiempo en unas condiciones de realidad absoluta; incluso las alondras y las chicharras, suponen algunos, sueñan. Hill House, nada cuerda, se alzaba en soledad frente a las colinas, acumulando oscuridad en su interior; llevaba así ochenta años y así podría haber seguido otros ochenta años más. En su interior, las paredes mantenían su verticalidad, los ladrillos se entrelazaban limpiamente, los suelos aguantaban firmes y las puertas permanecían cuidadosamente cerradas; el silencio empujaba incansable contra la madera y la piedra de Hill House, y lo que fuera que caminase allí dentro, caminaba solo.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Well - disturbed, perhaps. Leprous. Sick. Any of the popular euphemisms for insanity; a deranged house is a pretty conceit.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years, and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“I can hear them calling now," she thought, and the little footsteps running through Hill House and the soft sound of the hills pressing closer. "I am really doing it," she thought, turning the wheel to send the car directly at the great tree at the curve of the driveway, "I am really doing it, I am doing this all by myself, now, at last; this is me, I am really really really doing it by myself."
In the unending, crashing second before the car hurled into the tree, she thought clearly, "Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why don't they stop me?”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Hill House, nada cuerda, se alzaba en soledad frente a las colinas, acumulando oscuridad en su interior; llevaba así ochenta años y así podría haber seguido otros ochenta años más. En su interior, las paredes mantenían su verticalidad, los ladrillos se entrelazaban limpiamente, los suelos aguantaban firmes y las puertas permanecían cuidadosamente cerradas; el silencio empujaba incansable contra la madera y la piedra de Hill House, y lo que fuera que caminase allí dentro, caminaba solo.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“...Eleanor thought, I am the fourth person in this
room; I am one' of them; I belong.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“In delay there lies no plenty, present mirth hath present laughter.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“You’ve no idea the messages I’ve gotten from nuns walled up alive.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“You bring more light into this room than the window”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Grant that Luke take me at my worth, she thought, or at least let me not see the difference. Let him be wise or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped completely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Hill House went dancing,' Theodora said, 'taking us along a mad midnight fling. At least I think it was dancing; it might have been turning somersaults.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Well," she asked, "how do you gentlemen like living in a haunted house?"
"It's perfectly fine," Luke said, "perfectly fine. It gives me an excuse to have a drink in the middle of the night.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“The four of them stood, for the first time, in the wide, dark entrance hall of Hill House. Around them the house steadied and located them, above them the hills slept watchfully, small eddies of air and sound and movement stirred and waited and whispered, and the center of consciousness was somehow the small space where they stood, four separated people, and looked trustingly at one another.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Losing my temper will not help,' he said and gave the door a vicious kick.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“The house. It watches every move you make.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“What it was like before then, whether its personality was molded by the people who lived here, or the things they did, or whether it was evil from its start are all questions I cannot answer.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it . . .”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House