Shirley Jackson Quotes About House

Quotes about: 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

  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

• There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

  Shirley Jackson

  Long, House, Clean

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

• 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

• It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make.

  Shirley Jackson

  Moving, House, Watches

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.79, Penguin

• We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

  Shirley Jackson

  House, Trying, Together

• Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

  Shirley Jackson

  House, Atmosphere, Holiness

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.58, Penguin

• I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Reading, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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