“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different, or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex.”Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“Lucille Sharpe: She knows everything. She stopped drinking her tea, but I poisoned the porridge. Thomas Sharpe: Lucille, stop it! Do we have to do this? Must we? Lucille Sharpe: Yes.”Tagged: poisoning, tea, Porridge
“The nearest house is miles away, and the closest town is a half day's walk.”Tagged: Old Houses, Ghosts, Isolated, Remote
“The more the house sinks, the worse it gets. We must do something about it.”Tagged: sinking house, Proactive, getting worse
“[From trailer] A house as old as this one becomes, in time, a living thing. It starts holding onto things...keeping them alive when they shouldn't be. Some of them are good; some of them bad...Some should never be spoken about again.”Tagged: Old Houses, Ghosts
“The first time I saw one I was 10 years old. It was my mother's. Black cholera had taken her. So Father ordered a closed casket, asked me not to look. There were to be no parting kisses. No goodbyes. No last words. That is, until the night she came back.”Tagged: Ghosts, funeral, Closed Casket, haunting
“But the horror... The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.”Tagged: Horror, Love, Sweat, monstrous, monsters
“Thomas Sharpe: You're so...different. Edith Cushing: From who? Thomas Sharpe: ...everyone.”Tagged: different, unique
“Edith Cushing: [entering his mansion] Goodness. How many rooms are there? Thomas Sharpe: I don't know. Would you like to count them?”Tagged: Mansion, Sarcasm
“Edith Cushing: [about portrait of Lady Sharpe] She looks quite... Lucille Sharpe: Horrible? Yes. It's an excellent likeness.”Tagged: Portraits, insults
“Ghosts are real, that much I know. I've seen them all my life...”Tagged: Ghosts, Emotion, Drive, Loss, Revenge
“Thomas Sharpe: [about to dance] I've always closed my eyes to things that made me uncomfortable. It makes everything easier. Edith Cushing: I don't want to close my eyes. I want to keep them open.”Tagged: Open Eyes, Closed eyes, Dancing
“Edith Cushing: You're monsters. Both of you! Lucille Sharpe: Funny. That's the last thing Mother said, too.”Tagged: monsters, mother
“Ghosts are real, this much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do to us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime... There are others, others that hold onto an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those,…”Tagged: Ghosts, Emotion, Drive, Loss, Revenge
“Ghosts are real. This much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime. But there are others, others that hold on to an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those,…”Tagged: Ghosts, Forever Here, Ghosts Are Real
“I basically was roaming through a bookstore, in San Antonio, Texas. I was in my early teens, and I came upon this volume that had an irresistible title: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”
“Dori: Was that an earthquake? Balin: That, my lad, was a dragon.”Tagged: Earthquake, Dragon, dragon movies