The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

She turned her car onto the last stretch of straight drive leading her directly, face to face, to Hill House and, moving without thought, pressed her foot on the brake to stall the car and sat, staring. The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.

You must be sad; for though it is to Heaven,
’Tis hard to yield a little girl of seven.

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.

"If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven."

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.

If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.