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Rachel said:
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After being let down by House Across the Lake (to the point that I didn't actually finish it), I was hesitant to trust Sager again, but I was wrong. This was a definite return to form, and I will keep excitedly reading his books.
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“Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― The Grim Grotto
― The Grim Grotto
“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 stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
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