Quotes About Haunting

I am tired of writing dainty little biographical things that pretend that I am a trim little housewife ... I live in a dank old place with a ghost.

In the night, in the dark.

Wait till you see the bedrooms," Eleanor said. "Mine used to be the embalming room, I think." "It's the home I've always dreamed of," Theodora said. "A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. Particularly if my thoughts happened to be about murder or suicide or—

I have never liked the theory that poltergeists only come into houses where there are children, because I think it is simply too much for any one house to have poltergeists and children

Perhaps it has us now, this house, perhaps it will not let us go.

Qué frío hace, pensó Eleanor infantilmente; nunca seré capaz de volver a dormir con todo este ruido surgiendo de mi cabeza; ¿cómo pueden los demás oír el ruido, si está saliendo de mi cabeza? Estoy desapareciendo centímetro a centímetro en esta casa, me estoy desmoronando cada vez un poco más porque todo este ruido me está desgajando; ¿por qué están asustados los demás?

and whatever walked there, walked alone.

She shivered and though, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

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

She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

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.

Let us have a little more brandy,' the doctor said, 'and I will tell you the story of Hill House.

Hugh Crain," Theodora said, "you were a dirty old man, and you made a dirty old house and if you can still hear me from anywhere I would like to tell you to your face that I genuinely hope you will spend eternity in that foul horrible picture and never stop burning for a minute.

Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

In the night," Mrs. Dudley said, and smiled outright. "In the dark

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.

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, 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

Her drawing conveyed a forlorn and haunting suspense, as if asking the viewer to wonder whether these creatures would still be alive when the tide came back.

We are ghosts in Victorian gowns, lilac apparitions with parasols…

When you start dreaming- what's there to boast?Life may treat you like a living ghostBrokenness haunts you until you perishDeath will bring you nothing to cherish

I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something.

Make no mistake. The genes we're born with carry memory. They carry knowledge we've never learned, talents we've never studied, even fear of things that have never frightened us. but someone, in some time out of mind, had these memories. Yes, you might say that all of us are haunted. You might very well say that.?

She felt that she'd been watching a shadow. A shadow of the dead.

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