Haunting Of Hill House Nell Quotes
There’s something I noticed in episode 6 that wasn’t mentioned here, not sure whether anyone else has noticed it. When Olivia and Hugh are searching for Nell who went missing, Hugh says that he’s going to check the kitchen and the library.
Then we follow Liv who enters a room with a statue positioned next to it, and when Liv leaves the room, we see that now the statue actually turned its head towards Olivia, like the crying angel statue from Doctor Who.
Olivia: “All those colors. They’re all gone now, Hugh. And there’s only one left. I’m scared. That’s all I am. There’s nothing left. I’m only scared.”
Steven : “I’ve seen a lot of ghosts. Just not the way you think.”
Shirley: “To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
Mrs. Dudley: “No, dear. Use your cup of stars. Insist on your cup of stars. Once they’ve strapped you into being like everyone else, you’ll never see your cup of stars again.”
Shirley: “No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.”
Shirley: “It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make.”
Theodora :” Imagine the worst thing possible, assume it’s true, and go from there.”
Theo : “I’m drawing boundaries, which is something you should look in to.”
Steven : “A ghost can be a lot of things. A memory, a daydream, a secret. Grief, anger, guilt. But, in my experience, most times they’re just what we want to see.”
Olivia: “When you’re little, you learn how to see things that aren’t there. And when you grow up, you learn how to make them real.”
Shirley: “Fear and guilt are sisters;”
Nell: “Mom says that a house is like a body. And every house has eyes and bones and skin. A face. This room is like the heart of the house. No, not a heart, a stomach.”
Steven : “No live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
Theodora : “I don’t feel anything.”
Steven : “Just because someone is a good person. Just because you care about them doesn’t mean they won’t burn you.”
Nell: “Now you stand there and you talk about ghosts and spirits. And you sell tickets for the privilege. And yet you don’t believe in any of it.”
Shirley: “Fear,” the doctor said, “is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
Steven: “Most times, a ghost is a wish.”
Eleanor Quotes Haunting Of Hill House
One of the reasons I never watch your non-pitch meeting videos is because the titles are so presumptuous. When I thought it said “all of the hidden ghosts in The Haunting of Hill House” I clicked, then I realised it assumed that I missed those so now I’m not watching. Maybe I’m petty but I figured there’s no harm in telling you this, I may not be the only one who thinks this way
Hugh: “Some things can’t be told. You live them or you don’t. But they can’t be told. I’m sorry”
Shirley: “All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”
Shirley: “Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway,”
Steven : There’s natural phenomena that we understand and there’s natural phenomena that we don’t. Primitive humans used to die of fright during an eclipse. They had no idea what it was. The eye of an angry god. An evil spirit. Nothing supernatural about it, though. Once we understood what it was, well, it was just natural.
Shirley: “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.”
Theo : “Welp be sure to let your imagination get the best of you. That’s the first step. Imagine the worst thing possible. Assume it’s true. Then go from there.”
Shirley : “Most of what people say at a funeral is a wish. They’re at peace. They’re in a better place. They’re smiling down on us. People just wishing out loud.”
Olivia: “When we die, we turn into stories; and every time someone tells one of those stories, it’s like we’re still here for them. We’re all stories in the end.”
The Haunting of Hill House Olivia quotes
Luke : “I was born ninety seconds before Nell but she was always my big sister.”
Shirley : “Pandas don’t eat macaroni.”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
“Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, ‘She wants her cup of stars.’
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Haunting Of Hill House Confetti Quote Meaning
Indeed yes, Eleanor thought; indeed, so do I; a cup of stars, of course.
‘Her little cup,’ the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill’s good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. ‘It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.’ The waitress nodded, unconvinced, and the mother told the little girl, ‘You’ll have your milk from your cup of stars tonight when we get home. But just for now, just to be a very good little girl, will you take a little milk from this glass?’
Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don’t do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”
“Fear,” the doctor said, “is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
“Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.”
“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
“Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don’t do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”
“I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step. No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. I will light a fire in the cool evenings and toast apples at my own hearth. I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. People will come to me to have their fortunes told, and I will brew love potions for sad maidens; I will have a robin…”
“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.”
“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one’s childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”
“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”
“Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?”
“Fear and guilt are sisters;”
The Haunting Of Hill House Quotes
“Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway,”
“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.”
“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.”
“God! Whose hand was I holding?”
“I think we are only afraid of ourselves,” the doctor said slowly.
“No,” Luke said. “Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise.”
“No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.”
“You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.”
“Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup
of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone
else you will never see your cup of stars again”
“Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don’t let me, she hoped concretely, don’t let me know too surely what he thinks of me.”
“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair. Without ever wanting to become reserved and shy, she had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain,” said Lord Byron,”
“It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make.”
“Hill House, she thought, You’re as hard to get into as heaven.”
“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile.”