“Like everyone else in the house, she suffers from dreams.”
“If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams.”
“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”
“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.”
“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”
“We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.”