The Irregular Reader

“No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.”
― Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel