Shirley Jackson Quotes about House

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.

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.

Shirley Jackson

Wall, Doors, House

Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

Shirley Jackson

House, Trying, Together

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

Shirley Jackson

Long, House, Clean

Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

Shirley Jackson

Gossip, House, Towers

Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.76, Penguin

It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

Shirley Jackson

Kindness, People, House

Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.37, Penguin

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

Shirley Jackson

House, Atmosphere, Holiness

Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.58, Penguin