I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.
Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love.
Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.
For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.