“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“For they were the stuff of nightmares; maggoty abominations possessed of incalculable and vile intellect that donned flesh and spines of men and beasts to shield themselves from the sun and enable themselves to walk upright instead of merely slithering.”
― The Croning
― The Croning
“At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.”
― The Fires of Heaven
― The Fires of Heaven
“The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. 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.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
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