💬 Quotes

"Behind that mask of levity, that affected drawl and languid air, lies a man of iron will and boundless courage."

"Fate, which has often been cruel to me, has been kind in this—that it has given me a chance to show you that I am worthy of your love."

"In England, we do not guillotine men for the mere pleasure of seeing blood flow."

"A woman's heart is a strange and inscrutable thing; it may be won by a glance, and lost by a word."

"Hill House has stood 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."

"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."

"I am disappearing, inch by inch, into this house. I am going, I am going, and I don't know where to turn."

"Journeys end in lovers meeting, they say, but the search for home is different. Perhaps home is not a place, but a condition of being lost."

"It is a house that is not sane. It stands against its hills, holding darkness within; it has stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more."

"Why am I here? Why am I really here? I am here because I have never been anywhere else, and now I am finally part of the walls."

"In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their terrible luck."

"I am not a girl who needs to be saved."

"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve. Either you are his true love, or you killed him."

"Gansey had always been driven by the idea that he was meant for something greater, something that required him to be perfect."

"It was a wild, messy, beautiful thing, the way they had all come together."

"You look at the trees and you see wood. I look at the trees and I see something that’s been watching us for a thousand years."

"Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis."

"Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt."

"Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, die eine will sich von der andern trennen."

"Das also war des Pudels Kern!"