Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.
The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled an… - Susan Hill
The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled an…
- Susan Hill
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life. - Susan Hill
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow tr… - Susan Hill
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow tr…
Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who … - Susan Hill
Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who …
I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of th… - Susan Hill
I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of th…
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us. - Susan Hill
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable t… - Susan Hill
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable t…
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too. - Susan Hill
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.
For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever. - Susan Hill
For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
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