Shirley Jackson Quotes About Hills

Quotes about: Hills

• 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

  Dream, Wall, Reality

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin

• 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

  Wall, Doors, House

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin

• Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

  Shirley Jackson

  House, Heaven, Hills

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

• Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

  Shirley Jackson

  Gossip, House, Towers

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.76, Penguin

• It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

  Shirley Jackson

  Kindness, People, House

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.37, Penguin

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