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Songs From Heart

"A ghost can be a lot of things. A memory, a daydream, a secret. Grief, anger, guilt. But in my experience, most times they're just what we want to see. Most times, a ghost is a wish." The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix

"When we die we turn to stories. And every time someone tells one of those stories, it's like we're still here for them. We're all stories in the end." The Haunting of Hill House,Netflix

"Use your cup of stars. Insist on your cup of stars. Once they've trapped you into being like everyone else, you'll never see your cup of stars again." The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix

"Stand firm between the world out there and these little souls, because the world out there has teeth, and it is hungry and it is stupid and it eats and eats mindlessly. It doesn't care that they're innocent. You listen to your gut. Hold the door. Even if it makes them hate you." The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix

"Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. But so, it seems, is love. Love is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway. Without it, we cannot continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality." The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix

"When you're little, you learn how to see things that aren't there. And when you grow up, you learn how to make them real." The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix

"I learned a secret. There's no without. I am not gone. I'm scattered into so many pieces, sprinkled on your life like new snow." The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix

"Forgiveness is warm. Like a tear on a cheek. Think of that and of me when you stand in the rain. I loved you completely. And you loved me the same. That's all. The rest is confetti." The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix

"Maybe that’s why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for . . . and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you." It, Stephen King

"Maybe, he thought, there aren’t any such things as good friends or bad friends—maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they’re always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that’s what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart." It, Stephen King

“Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.” It, Stephen King

“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.” It, Stephen King

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up.” It, Stephen King

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.” The Shining, Stephen King

“The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.” The Shining, Stephen King

“But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.” The Shining, Stephen King

“The future was cloudy, but tonight the moon was bright.” Doctor Sleep, Stephen King

“God’s a connoisseur of fragile things, and decorates His cloudy outlook with ornaments of finest glass.” Doctor Sleep, Stephen King

"When you couldn’t sleep, when you were afraid to look around because of what you might see, time elongated and grew sharp teeth.” Doctor Sleep, Stephen King

"Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

"No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. I will light a fire in the cool evenings and toast apples at my own hearth. I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. People will come to me to have their fortunes told, and I will brew love potions for sad maidens; I will have a robin...” The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

"Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.” The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.” The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.” The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson