The Turn of the Screw Quotes


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The Turn of the Screw Quotes

  • SparkNotes: The Turn of the Screw Important Quotations Explained
    • "No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm!" -The Governess, Chapter 1


    • "I'm rather easily carried away." -The Governess, p.14
    • "How can I retrace to-day the strange steps of my obsession?" -The Governess, p.68


  • Wikiquote: Henry James Quotes
    • "The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance — all strewn with crumpled playbills." -Ch. XIII
    • "I caught him, yes, I held him — it may be imagined with what a passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped." -Ch. XXIV


  • LitQuotes: The Turn of the Screw Quotes
    • "The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be..."