The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

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.

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.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

In the country of the story the writer is king.