The Woman in Black Events Quotes

[It was] a modest house and yet sure of itself, and then looking across at the country beyond. I had no sense of having been here before, but an absolute conviction that I would come here again (1....

The business was beginning to sound like something from a Victorian novel, with a reclusive old woman having hidden a lot of ancient documents somewhere in the depths of her cluttered home. (2.62)

I decided that he was a man who had made, or come into, money late and unexpectedly, and was happy for the world to know it. (3.13)

Doubtless, in such a place as this, with its eerie marshes, sudden fogs, moaning winds… any poor old woman might be looked at askance; once upon a time, after all, she would have been branded as...

it was as though she was searching for something she wanted, needed—must have, more than life itself, and which had been taken from her. (5.24)

Behind me, out on the marshes, all was still and silent; save for that movement of the water, the pony and trap might never have existed. (6.9)

I had been as badly frightened as a man could be. I did not think that I would be the first to run from physical risks and dangers, although I had no reason to suppose myself markedly braver than...

…and because the cry of that child would never, I was sure, leave me for the rest of my life. (8.31)

In Scotland, a son was born to her and she wrote of him with a desperate, clinging affection. (9.35)

I felt a second of pure despair, alone in the middle of the wide marsh, under the fast-moving, stormy sky, with only water all around me and that dreadful house the only solid thing for miles aroun...

But the feelings that must accompany the death of someone as close to my heart and bound up with my own being as it was possible to be, I knew then, in the nursery of Eel Marsh House. (11.19)

"You told me that night—" I took a deep breath to try and calm myself. "A child—a child in Crythin Gifford has always died." (12.6)