"I am sorry to disappoint you, but I have no story to tell!"

"I don't think I ever told you about the extraordinary Mrs Drablow?"

"You are backing away from speaking out the truth of the matter, which is that I should not find a soul willing to spend any time out at Eel Marsh House"

"Well, she did me no harm. She neither spoke nor came near me. I did not like her look and I liked the ... the power that seemed to emanate from her towards me even less, but I have convinced myself that it is a power that cannot do more than make me feel afraid"

"Of course, things may have changed, I may be quite mistaken...things may be in apple-pie order and you'll clear it all up in an afternoon"

"You'll find everything hospitable enough at Crythin, for all it's a plain little place. We tuck ourselves in with our backs to the wind, and carry on with our business"

"I wouldn't have left you over the night, wouldn't have done that to you"

"There are stories, tales. There's all that nonsense. [...] You can discount most of it"

"He is mine. Why should I not have what is mine? He shall not go to strangers"

"You, if you are lucky, will neither hear nor see nor know of anything to do with that damned place again. The rest of us have to stay. We've to live with it"