As quoted in Tampa Bay Magazine (January/February 2008), p. 205
“No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Ch. 2
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Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Context: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. 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.
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.”
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (1932) page 168
Context: No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
“A good, square, stone house, placed on an eminence, facing the Bishop's Palace at Auckland.”
Of the house where he was born, p. 25.
Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982)
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“Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.”
Over the Hill to the Poor-house (1872).
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)