TWIB quotes

Chapter 1, Religion

'Christmas day would at least wear a bright and cheerful countenance'

Chapter 4, Religion

'While I had been saying my prayers' - 'she must have gone away'

Chapter 6, Religion

'the sight was comforting and calming to me, things in the heavens seemed still to be alright and unchanged'

Chapter 8, Religion

'the woman with the wasted face at the funeral and in the old burial ground'

Chapter 11, Religion

'I turned my eyes away from that dreadful place for what I fervently prayed was the last time'

Chapter 12, Religion

'nothing anyone could do to help her, except perhaps pray for her soul'

Chapter 1, The Past

'I had at last come out from the long shadow caused by the events of the past'

Chapter 12, The Past

'I had seen the ghost of Jennet Humfrye and she had taken her revenge.'

Chapter 9, The Past

'I shall kill us both before I go.'

Chapter 11, The Past

'In some violent or dreadful circumstance, a child has died.'

Chapter 4, The Past

Mr Jerome 'suffering a momentous shock'

Chapter 11, The Past

'Those who have suffered the most say least - Jerome, Keckwick.'

Chapter 2, Settings

Relief at 'getting away from the unhealthy atmosphere of fog and dankness'

Chapter 3, Settings

Railway Station 'glowing like the interior of a blacksmith's forge'

Chapter 5, Settings (Sublime)

'a heightening of every one of my senses'

Chapter 7, Settings

'the haunting, strange beauty of it all aroused a response deep within me'

Chapter 5, Settings

'a dull, rather gloomy and rather unwelcoming house'

Chapter 8, Settings

Spider 'it would be a fellow creature, warm-blooded and breathing in that cold, empty house'

Chapter 1, Supernatural

Fear 'paralysed me, just as it always had done, it was a long-forgotten, once too-familiar sensation'

Chapter 4, Supernatural

'Mr Jerome looked frozen, pale, his throat moving as if he were unable to utter.'

Chapter 5, Supernatural

'I saw again the woman with the wasted face.'

Chapter 6, Supernatural

'they too had not been real, not there, present, not substantial, but ghostly also'

Chapter 10, Supernatural

'my arms feeling as if they had been dragged out of their sockets'

Chapter 12, Supernatural

'I simply stared in incredulity and astonishment, then in cold fear'

Chapter 7, Trauma

'I seemed to have an overdose of bad dreams and be generally restless'

Chapter 9, Trauma

'I myself felt a desolation, a grief in my own heart'

Chapter 5, Trauma

'she directed the purest evil and hatred and loathing'

Chapter 10, Trauma

'that familiar cry of desperation and anguish'

Chapter 11, Trauma

'From that day Jennet Humfrye began to go mad.'

Chapter 12, Trauma

'I now had an urgent sense of time, a certainty we should not delay'

Chapter 2, Mystery

'Isn't there any more you ought to tell me'

Chapter 9, Mystery

'I myself felt a desolation, a grief in my own heart'

Chapter 4, Mystery

'half-hints and dark mutterings'

Chapter 8, Mystery

'neither one apparently willing to press the subject a little further'

Chapter 10, Mystery

'I tried desperately to provide a rational explanation for the presence'

Chapter 11, Mystery

'this was the focus of her search or the attention of he grief'

Chapter 3, Isolation

'Until the very last second, it seemed that I was to be alone.'

Chapter 6, Isolation

'all was still and silent'

Chapter 4, Isolation

'emptiness for many miles'

Chapter 9, Isolation

'Mr Jerome had hinted at some Drablow family graves, no longer used'

Chapter 3, Isolation

'Something of a recluse'

Chapter 9, Isolation (TWIB)

'He shall not go to strangers. I shall kill us both before I go.'