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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
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“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
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Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
―
“I have a theory," she said. I nodded at her to continue and she said, "There's this fireplace downstairs. I think I went down there for some reason. To hide, maybe. I thought it was all my fault my mother died. And I hit my head on the marble. My brain bled. I died."
She watched me.
"Right," I said. "I don't think that's possible."
"Why don't you think it's possible?" she asked. "Because everyone can see me?"
"It's not that. It's just that it seems to me that the dead only return for love or for revenge. Who did you come back for?"
Neither of us smiled. I felt light-headed I couldn't believe that we were discussing this.
"Love or revenge," she sighed. "Neither."
"Miranda," I said, "You're not dead. Okay?"
"Ore," she said. "I'm not alive.”
― White Is for Witching
She watched me.
"Right," I said. "I don't think that's possible."
"Why don't you think it's possible?" she asked. "Because everyone can see me?"
"It's not that. It's just that it seems to me that the dead only return for love or for revenge. Who did you come back for?"
Neither of us smiled. I felt light-headed I couldn't believe that we were discussing this.
"Love or revenge," she sighed. "Neither."
"Miranda," I said, "You're not dead. Okay?"
"Ore," she said. "I'm not alive.”
― White Is for Witching
“The gap between the poetry she wrote and the poetry she contained was, for Natalie, something unsolvable”
― Hangsaman
― Hangsaman
“It’s impossible to control someone else’s capacity for forgiveness.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
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