The Woman in Black Key Quotations
Try to group these quotes according to themes or ideas e.g: quotes about betrayal,
revenge, fear, isolation, appearances of the Woman in Black, madness, the
Supernatural, memory of the past, man and natural, exploration (discovering the
truth)
Key quotation
Said by:
Ch/p
My spirits have for many years now been
excessively affected by the weather…
…a true story, a story or haunting and evil, fear
and confusion, horror and tragedy.
We tuck ourselves in with our backs to the wind,
and carry on with our business.
Nonetheless, I had been left in no doubt that
there was some significance in what had been left
unsaid.
[It was] a modest house and yet sure of itself, and
then looking across at the country beyond. I had
no sense of having been here before, but an
absolute conviction that I would come here again
it was as though she was searching for something
she wanted, needed—must have, more than life
itself, and which had been taken from her.
In Scotland, a son was born to her and she wrote
of him with a desperate, clinging affection.
It was one of what I can only describe… as a
desperate, yearning malevolence…
Moreover, that the intensity of her grief and
distress together with her pent-up hatred and
desire for revenge permeated the air all around.
she would have been branded as a witch and local
legends and tales were still abroad and some
extravagant folklore still half-believed in.
Who she was—or what—and how she had
vanished, such questions I did not ask myself.
Her face, in its extreme pallor, her eyes, sunken
but unnaturally bright, were burning with the
concentration of passionate emotion which was
within her and which streamed from her.
But what was "real"? At that moment I began to
doubt my own reality.
But to harm who? Was not everyone connected
with that sad story now dead?
I like to look about me at the sky above my head,
whether there are moon and stars or utter
darkness, and into the darkness ahead of me; I like
to listen for the cries of nocturnal creatures and
the moaning rise and fall of the wind…
Arthur
Kipps (old)
Arthur
Kipps
Samuel
Daily
Arthur
Kipps
(Young)
1.10
2.21
3.39
4.43
(1.10)
(5.24)
(9.35)
(5.24)
(11.72)
(4.19)
(5.28)
(5.24)
(10.10)
(11.73)
(1.2)
Theme
or idea
Like an old wound, it gave off a faint twinge now
and again, but less and less often, less and less
painfully… Of late, it had been like the outermost
ripple of a pool, merely the faint memory of a
memory.
I felt nothing other than curiosity, a professional
interest… coupled with a mild sense of adventure.
…The flesh shrank from her bones, the color was
drained from her, she looked like a walking
skeleton—a living specter.
I did not believe in ghosts. Or rather, until this
day, I had not done so, and whatever stories I had
heard of them I had, like most rational, sensible
young men, dismissed as nothing more than stories
indeed.
this must be the Nine Lives Causeway—this and
nothing more—and saw how, when the tide came
in, it would quickly be quite submerged and
untraceable.
But for today I had had enough. Enough of
solitude and no sound save the water and the
moaning wind and the melancholy calls of the
birds, enough of monotonous grayness, enough of
this gloomy old house.
Behind me, out on the marshes, all was still and
silent; save for that movement of the water, the
pony and trap might never have existed.
(1.62)
(2.6)
(11.115)
(5.30)
(5.5)
(5.39)
(6.9)
Try finding your own key quotes. You should aim to learn several short quotes
relating to key events and themes.