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Shirley Jackson quotes about house

American Novelist December 14, 1919 – August 8, 1965

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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
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; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
Our house is old, and noisy, and full. when we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books; we also own assorted beds and tables and chairs and rocking horses and lamps and doll dresses and ship models and paint brushes and literally thousands of socks. 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. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to..."
We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a..."
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
Shirley Jackson quote: "It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every..."
It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make. Shirley Jackson
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. Shirley Jackson
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
Shirley Jackson quote: "Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven."
Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven. Shirley Jackson

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