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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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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 ...more

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“Most people never choose anything. They are chosen for, or they follow what is left to them after their choices have been eaten away by time, by ill fortune, by their own actions or the deeds of others.”
― Jay Lake, Green

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“People's lives and deaths are written in polite notes that must be passed among the powerful like dance cards.”
― Jay Lake, Green

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“The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside who will tear you apart.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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“History books say that kings and dukes and generals start wars. Don't believe it. We start them, you and I. Every time we turn away, keep quiet, stay out of it, behave ourselves.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: cinderlla, dukes, fairy-tale, kings, retellings, stepsister, ugly-step-sisters, wars, wolf, wolves

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“We each carry a measure of grace, and we each carry a measure of evil. There is never enough grace to banish the evil, and there is never enough evil to smother the grace.”
― Jay Lake, Green

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