Darkness within Quote by Shirley Jackson

“Hill House, not sane, stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were…

— Shirley Jackson

“Hill House,not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it has stood for eighty years and might stand eighty more. Within,…

— Shirley Jackson

“Perhaps someone had once hoped to lighten the air of the blue room in Hill House with a dainty wallpaper, not seeing how such…

— Shirley Jackson

“Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression which seems…

— Jonathan Coe

“VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surveying behind me a wasteland…

— John Tottenham

“Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little…

— L.M. Montgomery

“On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the…

— John Donne

“Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning…

— Lisel Mueller

“I’d always kept an eye on the house. I don’t mean doing repairs, for as the house didn’t belong to me that was not…

— Aminatta Forna

“The day has passed rapidly, or so it felt. I can barely believe the sun has already set behind the pale sandy hills. And…

— Ingrid Nickelsen

“Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.”

— Abdulrazak Gurnah