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.

Oh Constance, we are so happy.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

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.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.