Turn Of The Screw Quotes

#1. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children - ?" "We

Henry James

#2. I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.

Henry James

#3. I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.

Susan Hill

#4. It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Susan Hill

#5. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it.

Cora Carmack

#6. ... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

Henry James

#8. Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not.

Warren G. Bennis

#9. We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An

Ilona Andrews

#10. Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

Susan Hill

#11. The tilt of his head cracks gravity in half.

Tahereh Mafi

#12. Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.

Marty Rubin

#13. Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

Chief Seattle

#14. So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

Jeff Kinney

#15. You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.

Robert Thurman

#16. A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in it?"
"Do you?"
"There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.

Agatha Christie

#17. On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline

Liane Moriarty

#18. All you want is to have hot sex,
But after work every night,
You're so tired, the only thing
You can turn on is T.V shite.
There's never energy for sex.
So, oh, whatever will you do?
Well, there is no need to worry,
Because the system will screw you.

Harry Whitewolf

#19. Don't be silly. People never stop looking for love.
Yeah, some of them don't even stop AFTER they've found it.

Teresa Medeiros