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Mike Flanagan Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“You’ve seen it, haven’t you? This is a case study about the deaths of hundreds of people who died in their sleep. All of these victims reported seeing someone on top of them.”
— Dr. John, Doctor Sleep
Tagged: Deaths, Sleep
“Some things can't be told. You live them or you don't. But they can't be told. I'm sorry”
— Hugh Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Silence Lay Steadily
Tagged: What Is Not Said, The Inexpressible, The Secret of Secrecy, What Cannot Be Said, Inarticulable, Gulf Between Language and Experience
“How long do we have to live here, Daddy?”
— Nell Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Living In A Haunted House
“Nell is in the red room.”
— Theodora Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Open Casket
“I don't feel anything.”
— Theodora Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Silence Lay Steadily
Tagged: Feelings, lack, cold, Numb
“Mom says that a house is like a body. And every house has eyes and bones and skin. A face. This room is like the heart of the house. No, not a heart, a stomach.”
— Nell Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Silence Lay Steadily
Tagged: House, Body, simile metaphors, Eyes, Bones, skin, face, Stomach
“All this time we tried to get into this room, now we can't get the fuck out!”
— Theodora Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Silence Lay Steadily
Tagged: Room, Frustrated, trapped, upset
“We're our family, Steve.”
— Shirley Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Family, United
“My brother raped the family, is what's going on.”
— Shirley Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Brother, Rape, Family, Awful
“Most times, a ghost is a wish.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Ghost, Wish
“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.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Ghost, Memory, daydream, Grief, Guilt, Anger, Experience
“Steven Crain: Nobody's buying the novel, Shirl.

Shirley Crain: You sold me the book. Now you know what I think. You publish this, you know what it costs.”
— Shirley Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: novel, book, sold, publish
“Does he talk to you about what happened that night? Because all I've got are those tabloid quotes. He refuses to tell us anything else.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: happened, Night, tabloid, Quotes, Refusal
“He said it was haunted. Those are his words.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Haunted, Words
“I've seen a lot of ghosts. Just not the way you think.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Ghosts, Memory
“You're worse than a guy, you're like a frat guy.”
— Shirley Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: insults
“Imagine the worst thing possible, assume it's true, and go from there.”
— Theodora Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Open Casket
Tagged: Cynical, Worst case
“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.”
— Olivia Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Open Casket
Tagged: Growing Up, Getting Older, Dreams, Realizing Your Dreams
“I'm going to fix her. That's what I do.”
— Shirley Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Open Casket
Tagged: Fixing People, Needing To Fix
“There's natural phenomena that we understand and there's natural phenomena that we don't. Primitive humans used to die of fright during an eclipse. They had no idea what it was. The eye of an angry god. An evil spirit. Nothing supernatural about it, though. Once we understood what it was, well, it was just natural.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Supernatural, Ghosts, What We Don't Understand
“The characters felt real, the world felt like our own, and there was no safety net — you weren’t safe in the daylight, your family could turn on you, and children weren’t safe from the monster. In fact, sometimes they were its favorite food.”
— Mike Flanagan, How Stephen King Scared a Generation of Storytellers Into Existence
Tagged: Horror, Good writing, Stephen King, Books, Why things scare us
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