Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
("The Haunting of Hill House")
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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
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.
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Oh Constance, we are so happy.
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On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
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Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
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Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .
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