The Woman in Black Quotes

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)

Minutes later, they were receding across the causeway, smaller and smaller figures in the immensity and wideness of marsh and sky… (5.15)

It was one of what I can only describe… as a desperate, yearning malevolence… (5.24)

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] 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....

Like an old wound, it gave off a faint twinge now and again, but less and less often, less and less painfully… Of late, it had been like the outermost ripple of a pool, merely the faint memory of...

she would have been branded as a witch and local legends and tales were still abroad and some extravagant folklore still half-believed in. (4.19)

Behind me, in the house, I knew that I must have left the family in a state of consternation and bewilderment… (1.60)

I like to look about me at the sky above my head, whether there are moon and stars or utter darkness, and into the darkness ahead of me; I like to listen for the cries of nocturnal creatures and th...

I felt nothing other than curiosity, a professional interest… coupled with a mild sense of adventure. (2.6)