I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and w… - Shirley Jackson

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. 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.

The thought of a ring around my finger always made me feel tied tight, because rings had no openings to get out of.

wherever she goes she will only find the same hell she was running away from.