Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.
Joyce Carol OatesWhat is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
Joyce Carol OatesRunning! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
Joyce Carol Oates