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“She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the branches scribble on its face.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“When I am afraid, I can see perfectly the sensible, beautiful not-afraid side of the world, I can see chairs and tables and windows staying the same, not affected in the least, and I can see things like the careful woven texture of the carpet, not even moving. But when I am afraid I no longer exist in any relation to these things. I suppose because things are not afraid.”
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“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Marble is always a shock,” she said. “It never feels like you think it's going to. I suppose a lifesize statue looks enough like a real person to make you expect to feel skin.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“I realized in a flash that the memory was already literature and that perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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