Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

Wear your boots if you wander today

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.

I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.

Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.