★Torian★

“Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It was an act of moral strength to lift her foot and set it on the bottom step, and she thought that her deep unwillingness to touch Hill House for the first time came directly from the vivid feeling that it had been waiting for her, evil, but patient.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. I found it in the clangour of a metropolis, and in the teeming midst of a shabby and commonplace rooming house with a prosaic landlady and two stalwart men by my side.”
― H. P. Lovecraft