The Haunting of Hill House quotes

I feel a little clearer just now. We have.

Nell?

All of us have. Wouldn't have changed anything. I need you to know that.

Nell.

The rest is confetti.

Hey.

So many times and we didn't know it. All of us.

Nelly?

No, not a heart.

Nell?

A stomach. We have. All of us have.

I don't think she can hear us.

So many times and we didn't know it.

All right, we need to get Luke out of here, we need to get him to a hospital - I don't get it.

All this time we tried to get into this room and now we can't get the fuck out.

Shirley Crain

I feel like I've been here before.

We have. All of us have. So many times and we didn't know it. All of us. I feel a bit clearer now. Everything's been out of order. Time, I mean. I thought for so long that time was like a line, that... that our moments were laid out like dominoes, and that they... fell, one into another and on it went, just days tipping, one into the next, into the next, in a long line between the beginning... and the end. But I was wrong. It's not like that at all. Our moments fall around us like rain. Or... snow. Or confetti. You were right. We have been in this room. So many times and we didn't know. All of us. Mom says... that a house is like a body... and that every house... has eyes. And bones. And skin. And a face. This room is like the heart of the house. No, not a heart, a stomach. It was your dance studio, Theo. It was my toy room. It was a reading room for mom. A game room for Steve. A family room for Shirley. A treehouse. But it was always the Red Room. It put on different faces so that'd we'd be still and quiet. While it digested. I'm like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster. And the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

You have to live.

Luke Crain

I don't- I don't know how to do this without you.

I learned a secret. There's no without. I am not gone. I'm scattered into so many pieces, sprinkled on your life like new snow. There's so much I want to say to you all.

I'm so sorry our last words were in anger.

They weren't our last.

Shirley Crain

I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I didn't... answer the phone.

But you did. So many times.

I'm sorry if I didn't listen, and I'm sorry...

It wouldn't have changed anything. I need you to know that. Forgiveness is warm. Like a tear on a cheek. Think of that and of me when you stand in the rain. I loved you completely. And you loved me the same. That's all. The rest is confetti.

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How long has it been since you were here?

HCHugh Crain

Longer than I intended. It was too hard to see you here, this way. But I still had you with me.

Oh, love. That wasn't me, that was just you. What were you doing all this time away?

HCHugh Crain

I was holding a door. Holding a door closed. I had my back against it, and my arms out wide, because I knew there were monsters in the other side and they wanted what was left of our family. And I held it so hard, I didn't have arms left for the kids. The monsters got through anyway.

That's what monsters do.

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We're all safe now. This is our forever house. It always was. Nothing bad will ever touch them ever again.

HCHugh Crain

Nothing good will, either.

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I don't feel anything.

TPTrish Park

That's okay, none taken.

No, I don't I don't feel anything else.

TPTrish Park

Because you're normal. What were you feeling before?

I was feeling fear. And... And guilt.

TPTrish Park

Fear and guilt are sisters.

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I've lived with ghosts since I was a kid. Since before I knew they were even there. Ghosts are guilt, ghosts are secrets, ghosts are regrets and failings. But most times most times a ghost is a wish. Like a marriage is a wish. A marriage can be like a house and a marriage can be haunted, and I let that happen to us. And I'm so sorry, Leigh.

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